Table 5. Characteristics of nine Asteraceae species.

Species	A. selengensis	A. capillaris	A. frigida	A. gmelinii	A. montana	C. boreale	S. sessilis	D. glutinosum	C. humilis
Length (bp)/GC content (%)	151215/37.46	151056/37.46	151076/37.48	151318/37.42	151130/37.48	151012/37.47	150784/37.46	152229/37.33	152585/37.70
Size (bp)/GC content (%) of LSC	82920/35.55	82821/35.56	82740/35.58	83061/35.49	82873/35.57	82817/35.56	82958/35.51	83954/35.32	83622/35.82
Size (bp)/GC content (%) of SSC	18367/30.81	18309/30.72	18392/30.83	18335/30.83	18339/30.87	18281/30.85	18338/31.12	18233/31.11	18651/31.51
Size (bp)/GC content (%) of IR	24964/43.09	24963/43.08	24972/43.06	24961/43.06	24959/43.08	24957/43.08	24744/43.10	25021/42.97	25156/43.13
Size (bp)/GC content (%) of CDS	77928/37.84	79197/37.71	79182/37.77	79167/37.76	78912/37.77	76983/38.02	78372/37.75	78771/37.88	80257/38.03
Size (bp)/GC content (%) of introns	17240/36.94	17244/36.92	17259/36.93	17303/36.85	17308/36.88	15524/37.74	16197/37.41	16479/37.18	16200/37.28
Size (bp)/GC content (%) of rRNA	9048/55.08	9048/55.08	9048/55.08	9048/55.08	9048/55.08	9048/55.08	9047/55.18	9047/55.18	9046/55.23
Size (bp)/GC content (%) of tRNA	2798/52.75	2798/52.72	2806/52.67	2798/52.75	2806/52.71	2723/52.63	2692/52.45	2694/52.86	2726/52.93
Size (bp)/GC content (%) of IGSs	44274/32.43	42872/32.48	42854/32.44	43075/32.34	43129/32.50	46807/32.20	44549/32.49	45311/31.94	44446/32.77
No. of different genes	114	114	114	114	114	113	111	111	114
No. of different protein-coding genes *	80	80	80	80	80	80	79	79	81
No. of different rRNA genes	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
No. of different tRNA genes	30	30	30	30	30	29	28	28	29
No. of different duplicated genes by IR	18	19	20	19	19	18	19	19	21
No. of genes with introns **	21	21	21	21	21	19	20	20	20

* The presence of pseudogenes in the complete genome of A. frigida, A. montana, S. sessilis, D. glutinosum (ycf1, rps19), and C. humilis (ycf1, ycf68, rps19).

** Introns losses: one intron missing in rpl16 (C. boreale, S. sessilis and D. glutinosum).