Table 2.

Summary statistics for the genome annotation of Junco hyemalis compared with other similarly sized avian species (Fringilla coelebs, Melospiza melodia, Taeniopygia guttata, Ficedula albicollis, Manacus vitellinus, and Geospiza fortis), modified from Recuerda et al. (2021).

Genome annotation	J. hyemalis	F. coelebs	M. melodia	T. guttata	F. allbicollis	M. vittelinus	G. fortis
Number of genes	19,026	17,703	15,086	17,561	16,763	18,976	14,399
Average gene length (bp)	15,402	15,818	14,457	26,458	31,394	27,847	30,164
Number of CDS	23,245	17,703	15,086	17,561	16,763	18,976	14,399
Average CDS length (bp)	1,647	1,679	1,325	1,677	1,942	1,929	1,766
Number of exons	229,210	221,872	131,940	171,767	189,043	190,390	164,721
Average exon length (bp)	167	165	153	255	253	264	195
Average number of exons/gene	9.86	10.16	8.67	10.25	12.22	11.51	11.41
Number of introns	205,965	200,041	116,724	153,909	171,236	171,089	149,563
Average intron length (bp)	1,945	1,902	1,695	2,930	3,257	3,294	2,813
BUSCO Eukaryota database: C: 89.0% [S: 85.1%, D: 3.9%], F: 5.1%, M: 5.9%, N: 255
BUSCO Aves database: C: 96.2% [S: 83.7%, D: 12.5%], F: 1.5%, M: 2.3%, N: 8,338

BUSCO parameters are C: Complete BUSCO; S: Complete and single-copy BUSCOs; D: Complete and duplicated BUSCOs; F: Fragmented BUSCOs; M: Missing BUSCOs; and N: Total BUSCO groups searched. CDS indicates protein-coding sequences.