Table 1. Comparison of genomes and genomic features of known pathogenic and anamorphic Ustilaginomycetes.

	MbA	U. bromivora	S. scitamineum	S. reilianum	U. maydis	U. hordei	M. pennsylvanicum	A. flocculosa
Assembly statistics
Total contig length (Mb)	18.3		19.5	18.2	19.7	20.7	19.2	23.2
Total scaffold length (Mb)		20.5	19.6	18.4	19.8	21.15	19.2	23.3
Average base coverage	50×	154×	30×	20×	10×	25×	339×	28×
N50 contig (kb)	705.1		37.6	50.3	127.4	48.7	43.4	38.6
N50 scaffold length (kb)		877	759.2	738.5	817.8	307.7	121.7	919.9
Chromosomes	21	23		23	23	23
GC-content (%)	60.9	52.4	54.4	59.7	54	52	50.9	65.1
Coding (%)	62.8	54.4	57.8	62.6	56.3	54.3	54	66.3
Coding sequence
Percentage CDS (%)	69.5	59.8	62	65.9	61.1	57.5	56.6	54.3
Average gene size (bp)	1935	1699	1819	1858	1836	1708	1734	2097
Average gene density (gene/kb)	0.36	0.35	0.34	0.37	0.34	0.34	0.33	0.30
Protein-coding genes	6653	7233	6693	6648	6786	7113	6279	6877
Exons	11,645	11,154	10,214	9776	9783	10,907	9278	19,318
Average exon size (bp)	1091	1101	1191	1221	1230	1107	527	658
Exons/gene	1.75	1.5	1.5	1.47	1.44	1.53	1.48	2.8
tRNA genes	150	133	116	96	111	110	126	176
Noncoding sequence
Introns	9333	3921	3521	3103	2997	3161	2999	12,427
Introns/gene	1.40	0.54	0.53	0.47	0.44	0.44	0.48	1.81
Average intron length (base)	163	163	130.1	144	142	141	191.4	141
Average intergenic distance (bp)	769	1054	1114	929	1127	1186	1328	1273
Secretome
Protein with signal peptide	559		622	632	625	538	419	622
Secreted without TMD	380				467			737
– with known domain	260				264			554

[Brefort et al., 2014; Nadal and Gold, 2010].