Table 3. Summary statistics on gene information for the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, and the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria ( Wang et al., 2014).
| Schistocerca gregaria | Locusta migratoria | |
|---|---|---|
| Genome | ||
| Size (bp) | 8,817,834,205 | 6,524,990,357 |
| Scaffold N50 (bp) | 157,705 | 322,700 |
| GC content | 0.406 | 0.407 |
| Gene | ||
| Total gene number | 18,815 | 17,307 |
| Average pre-mRNA Length (bp) | 54,426 | 54,341 |
| Average CDS length (bp) | 1,137 | 1,160 |
| Average intron length (bp) | 12,522 | 11,159 |
| Average exon length (bp) | 216 | 201 |
| Average exon number per gene | 5.26 | 5.77 |
Scaffold N50, the sequence length of the shortest scaffold at 50% of the total genome length; CDS, coding sequence.