Table 4.

Summary statistics of four turtle genomes.

	Chrysemys picta bellii	Chelonia mydas	Pelodiscus sinensis	Platysternon megacephalum
Sequencing technology	Sanger + NGS	NGS	NGS	NGS
Assembly size (Gb)	2.59	2.24	2.21	2.32
Sequence coverage (×)	18.0	82.3	105.6	204.2
Contig N50 (kb)	11.9	20.4	21.9	41.8
Scaffold N50 (kb)	5,212	3,778	3,331	7,222
GC content (%)	43	43.5	44.4	44.63
Gene number	21,796	19,633	19,327	22,400