TABLE 1.
Assembly statistics of avian Plasmodium transcriptomes
| Species | Transcriptome build | Nr contigs | Transcript GC (%) | Size (bp) | Mean transcript length (bp) | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plasmodium relictum GRW4 | De novo assembly | 15,594 | 21.31 | 11,261,992 | 722.2 | This study |
| Plasmodium ashfordi GRW2 | De novo assembly | 11,954 | 21.22 | 9,010,380 | 930.8 | Videvall et al. (2017) |
| Plasmodium delichoni COLL6 | De novo assembly | 12,048 | 23.93 | 5,680,962 | 471.5 | Weinberg et al. (2019) |
| Plasmodium homocircumflexum COLL4 | De novo assembly | 21,612 | 21.64 | 17,175,763 | 794.7 | Weinberg et al. (2019) |
| Plasmodium homocircumflexum COLL4 | De novo assembly a | 15,597 | 15.97 | 7,090,152 | 454.6 | Garcia‐Longoria et al. (2020) |
| Plasmodium gallinaceum | De novo assembly b | 32,549 | 28.42 | 22,074,210 | 678.2 | Lauron et al. (2015) |
| Plasmodium gallinaceum 8A | Inferred from genome | 5,439 | 21.21 | 11,238,032 | 2,066.0 | Böhme et al. (2018) |
| Plasmodium relictum DONANA05 (SGS1‐like) | Inferred from genome | 5,306 | 21.60 | 11,003,271 | 2,073.7 | Böhme et al. (2018) |
a
Assembly was cut off at 23% GC, so the associated numbers are not representative.
b
Assembly contains predominantly host transcripts, so the associated numbers are not representative.