Table 1.
Features of Babesia orientalis draft genome compared with that of Plasmodium falciparum, Theileria parva, and B. bovis.
| Features | Species |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| P. falciparum | T. parva | B. bovis | B. orientalis | |
| Size (Mbp) | 22.8 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 7.8 |
| Number of chromosomes | 14 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Total G+C composition (%) | 19.4 | 34.1 | 41.8 | 42.4 |
| Size of apicoplast genome (kbp) | 35 | 39.5 | 33 | 33 |
| Size of mitochondrial genome (kbp) | 6 (linear) | 6 (linear) | 6 (linear) | 6 (linear) |
| Number of nuclear protein coding genes | 5,268 | 4,035 | 3,671 | 4199 |
| Average protein coding gene length (bp) | 2,283 | 1,407 | 1,514 | 1099 |
| Percent genes with introns | 53.9 | 73.6 | 61.5 | 46.1 |
| Mean length of intergenic region (bp) | 1,694 | 405 | 589 | 1100.0 |
| G+C composition of intergenic region | 13.8 | 26.2 | 37 | 36.2 |
| G+C composition of exons (%) | 23.7 | 37.6 | 44 | 44.59 |
| G+C composition of introns (%) | 13.6 | 25.4 | 35.9 | 35.8 |
| Percent coding | 52.6 | 68.4 | 70.2 | 61.2 |
| Gene density | 4,338 | 2,057 | 2,228 | 1856.7 |