Table 1.
Features of Published Dictyostelid Genomes
| Ddis | Dpur | Pvio | Dlac | Ppal | Dfas | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contigs/supercontigs | 226/6 | 1,213/799 | 1,228 | 54/54 | 52/41 | 33/25 |
| Total nucleotides (Mb) | 33.9 | 33.0 | 25.7 | 23.4 | 32.9 | 31.0 |
| Average contig length (kb) | 155 | 27 | 21 | 432 | 320 | 1,064 |
| A/T content (%) overall/in CDS | 77.6/72.6 | 75.5/ND | 68.2/65.5 | 70.2/67.8 | 68/63.8 | 66.2/63.2 |
| Coding sequences (CDS) | 13,258 | 12,410 | 10,597 | 10,232 | 11,694 | 12,007 |
| Average gene length | 1,604 | 1,760 | 1,624 | 1,712 | 1,634 | 1,696 |
| Gene density (CDS per Mb) | 396 | 376 | 412 | 437 | 375 | 392 |
| DNA in CDS (Mb) | 21.3 | 21.8 | 17.3 | 17.5 | 18.7 | 20.2 |
| Intergenic DNA (Mb) | 12.6 | 11.2 | 8.4 | 5.8 | 14.2 | 10.8 |
Note.—Genome statistics for Ddis, Dpur, Dlac, Ppal, and Dfas were retrieved from Eichinger et al. (2005), Gloeckner et al. (2016), Sucgang et al. (2011), and Heidel et al. (2011), respectively. ND, not determined. Dlac, Ppal, and Dfas were renamed as Tieghemostelium lacteum, Heterostelium album, and Cavenderia fasciculata in a new classification of Dictyostelia (Sheikh et al. 2018), which may need revision in the near future (Schilde et al. 2019) and is therefore not used here.