Table 1.

Features of the Perkinsela sp. nuclear genome and those of select kintetoplastids.

	Perkinsela sp.a	Bodo saltans b	Phytomonas sp.c	Trypanosoma brucei d	Leishmania major e
Genome size (Mbp)	9.5	39.9	17.8	26.1	32.8
G + C (%)	47.1	46.6	48.0	46.4	59.7
Protein-coding genes	5,252	18,943	6,381	9,068	8,272
Mean intergenic distance (bp)	515.4	462.9	1,140	1,279	2,045
Trans-splicing?	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes

^aStrain CCAP1560/4; This study.

^bStrain Konstanz; numbers shown correspond to Jackson et al.²⁵. We analyzed 18,963 protein-coding genes taken from http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/downloads/protozoa/bodo-saltans.html

^cStrain EM²⁶.

^dStrain TREU927²⁷.

^eStrain Friedlin²⁸.