Table 1. Comparison of cp DNA features among 11 Santalales species.

Features		Viscum minimum	Viscum crassulae	Viscum album	Dendrotrophe varians	Osyris alba	Champereia manillana	Taxillus sutchuenensis	Taxillus chinensis	Helixanthera parasitica	Macrosolen cochinchinensis	Schoepfia jasminodora
Size (bp)
Total		131,016	126,064	128,921	140,666	147,253	147,461	122,562	121,363	124,881	122,986	118,743
	Protein-coding genes	66,691	66,562	64,231	64,624	66,500	66,254	63,593	63,722	64,010	64,100	58,362
	tRNA genes	2,735	2,662	2,736	2,792	2,656	2,792	2,139	2,141	2,287	2,287	2,559
	rRNA genes	9,034	9,044	9,050	9,068	9,044	9,049	9,072	9,072	9,062	9,052	9,050
	introns	15,314	15,278	17,161	16,434	16,648	10,052	6,991	6,858	9,091	8,694	13,971
	IGSs	37,242	32,518	35,743	47,748	52,405	59,314	40,767	39,570	40,431	38,853	34,801
	LSC	75,814	73,226	73,893	81,684	84,601	83,505	70,630	70,357	73,043	69,018	84,168
	SSC	9,014	8,628	8,632	10,870	13,972	7,806	6,102	6,082	6,334	6,144	9,763
	one IR	23,094	22,105	23,198	24,056	24,340	28,075	22,915	22,462	22,752	23,912	12,406
Number of genes
Total		99	98	96	101	101	101	91	91	92	92	101
	Protein-coding genes	66	66	64	67	67	67	64	64	63	63	69
	tRNA genes	29	28	28	30	30	30	23	23	25	25	28
	rRNA genes	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
	Genes with introns	15	14	14	16	16	16	8	8	10	10	14
% GC content
Total		36.2	36.4	36.4	37.8	37.7	37.4	37.3	37.3	36.5	36.6	38.1
	LSC	33.3	33.6	33.5	35.5	35.6	35.3	34.7	34.7	33.8	33.6	36.1
	SSC	24.2	24.0	24.8	29.7	31.2	27.9	26.2	26.2	25.5	24.4	30.7
	IRs	43.2	43.4	43.2	43.7	43.1	41.9	42.8	43.0	42.3	42.2	47.9
% Coding regions
Total		59.8	62.1	59.1	54.4	53.5	53.0	61.1	61.8	60.3	61.3	59.0
	Protein-coding genes	50.9	52.8	49.8	45.9	45.2	44.9	51.9	52.5	51.3	52.1	49.2
	tRNA genes	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.0	1.8	1.9	1.7	1.8	1.8	1.9	2.2
	rRNA genes	6.9	7.2	7.0	6.4	6.1	6.1	7.4	7.5	7.3	7.4	7.6