Table 4.

The statistics of gene models of protein-coding genes annotated in the Tarim red deer genome.

Methods	Gene set	Number of genes	Average length (bp)				Exons per gene
			Gene length	CDS length	Exon length	Intron length
Ab initio	Augustus	25,176	44,593.56	1,427.27	175.37	6,046.70	8.14
Homolog	Bos taurus	26,515	23,126.00	1,524.78	181.24	2,913.94	8.41
	Canis familiaris	28,410	40,491.39	1,575.50	180.72	5,042.44	8.72
	Homo sapiens	102,682	31,718.82	1,081.93	165.30	5,525.07	6.55
	Ovis aries	27,407	33,288.38	1,459.59	179.88	4,474.00	8.11
	Sus scrofa	29,486	23,673.50	1,267.90	184.48	3,815.11	6.87
	Balaenoptera acutorostrata	36,502	47,716.59	1,749.88	168.55	4,899.43	10.38
Glean		20,652	37,290.72	1,577.53	190.74	4,912.07	8.54