Table 1.

Genome size of representative helminth species and the amount/percent of genome masked as repetitive. Low complexity repeats and simple (for example di- or tri-nucleotide repeats) are not targets for molecular assays.

Species	Assembly size (Mb)	Repeat-masked (Mb)	Repeat %	% of assembly that is low complexity/simple repeats
Ancylostoma ceylanicum (Hii et al., 2018)	349	128.6	36.8	0.5
Ancylostoma duodenale (Hii et al., 2018)	332.9	116.1	34.9	0.7
Ascaris lumbricoides germline (Okorie and de Souza, 2016)	334	n/a	16.8	n/a
Ascaris lumbricoides soma (Okorie and de Souza, 2016)	291	n/a	7	1.5
Necator americanus (Masny et al., 2016; Hii et al., 2018)	244.1	67.1	27.5	1.2
Strongyloides stercoralis (Pilotte et al., 2017; Hii et al., 2018)	42.7	4.4	10.3	4.2
Trichuris trichiura (Hii et al., 2018)	75.5	18.4	24.4	0.4