Table 3:

Summary of predicted genes within each goose genome assembly

Property	This study	Lu et al. [8]	Gao et al. [9]
Total PCG length (bp)	326,863,440	439,289,059	500,923,091
No. of PCGs	17,568	16,150	16,288
PCG proportion of genome	29.34%	39.25%	44.31%
No. of total exons	152,392	158,713	167,532
Mean exons per gene	8.67	10.92	10.29
Total exon length (bp)	26,883,354	25,763,242	26,157,477
Exons proportion of genome	2.41%	2.31%	2.31%
Mean exon length (bp)	176.41	162.33	156.13
Mean intron length (bp)	2,224.97	2,867.48	3,139.07