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. 2019 Jan 23;15(1):e1007513. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007513

Table 1. Characteristics of S. bovis, S. haematobium (Egypt isolate) [15], S. mansoni [13] and S. japonicum [16] genome assemblies.

S. bovis S. haematobium S. mansoni S. japonicum
Estimated genome size (Mb) 388–392c 385 381 403
Number of protein coding genes 11,631 11,140 11,774 12,657
GC content (%) 34.4 32.1 34.7 33.5
Repeat rate (%) 35.83 34.44 39.66 36.85
Contig statistics
Total base pairs (Mb) 361.0 352.7 362.5 369.0
Number of contigs 20,949 59,154 9,520 95,338
N50 length (kb) 34.9 22.4 76.7 6.1
Length largest contig (kb) 423.3 180.9 459.9 92.5
Mean contig size (kb) 17.2 6.0 38.1 3.9
Median contig size (kb) 9.6 0.9 20.9 2.5
Scaffold statistics
Number of scaffolds 4,780 29,834 885 25,048
Assembly size (Mb)a 373.7 375.9 364.5 397.7
Assembly total base pairs (Mb)b 361.0 352.7 362.5 369.0
N50 length (kb) 202.9 317.5 32,115.3 173.6
Length largest scaffold (Mb) 1.1 1.8 65.5 1.7
Number > 1kb (% of assembly) 4,780 (100%) 7,462 (97.6%) 884 (99.9%) 25,029 (100%)
Number > 10kb (% of assembly) 4,367 (99.3%) 2,384 (94.5%) 446 (99.4%) 4,663 (87.0%)
Number > 100kb (% of assembly) 1,045 (70.9%) 958 (79.8%) 158 (97.0%) 795 (59.3%
Mean scaffold size (kb) 78.2 12.6 411.9 15.9
Median scaffold size (kb) 27.7 0.43 10.4 2.1

aCombined length of all scaffolds in Mb;

bCombined length of all scaffolds without gaps (N’s) in Mb;

cEstimated by GenomeScope