Table 1.
A comparison of genome characteristics of the C. sonorensis genome with other selected Diptera species
| Parameter | Culicoides sonorensis | Aedes aegypti L3 | Aedes aegypti L5a | Anopheles gambiae AGAM P4a | Drosophila melanogaster BDGP6a | Belgica antarctica GCA_000775305.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genome size (Mb) | 189 | 1384.1 | 1278.7 | 273.1 | 143.7 | 89.7 |
| Number of contigs | 15,810 | 36,205 | 2539 | 16,825 | 2442 | 22,492 |
| Contig N50 | 30,774 | 82,500 | 11,758,062 | 85,555 | 19,488,218 | 13,551 |
| Contig N90 | 5567 | 15.283 | 74,389 | 5600 | 666,663 | 1865 |
| Number of scaffolds | 7974 | 4757 | 2310 | 8 | 1870 | 4997 |
| Scaffold N50 | 89,077 | 1,547,048 | 409,777,670 | 49,364,325 | 25,286,936 | 98,164 |
| Scaffold N90 | 14,215 | 324,062 | 83,687 | 2684 | 23,513,712 | 18,418 |
| Ns (%) | 2.8 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 7.6 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
| Maximum contig length | 552,397 | 685,587 | 71,953,859 | 808,130 | 27,905,041 | 131,402 |
| Repeats + low complexity regions | 29.7% | 73% | 78% | 25% | 23% | 4% |
| GC content | 28.4% | 38.3% | 38.2% | 44.3% | 42.0% | 38.9% |
| GC exons | 34.3% | 46.8% | 46.2% | 54.6% | 49.1% | 47.1% |
| Protein-coding genes | 15,612 | 15,796 | 14,626 | 13,075 | 13,918 | 13,510 |
| Mean protein-coding gene length | 5040 bp | 18,126 bp | 46,920 bp | 6442 bp | 6960 bp | 2555 bp |
| Mean exon length (protein coding genes) | 480 bp | 460 bp | 494 bp | 438 bp | 538 bp | 325 bp |
| Mean intron length (protein-coding genes) | 632 bp | 23,265 bp | 10,456 bp | 1008 bp | 1147 bp | 213 bp |
| Mean introns per transcript (in protein-coding genes) | 6.7 | 5.1 | 7.9 | 5.5 | 6.9 | 5.3 |
| Maximum splice isoforms/protein-coding gene | 19 | 20 | 50 | 20 | 75 | n.a. |
ain the case of these species, the number of scaffolds shown correspond to the chromosomal arms plus minor scaffolds that may have been mapped but not assembled