Table 1.

Basic information on Cistanche species mitogenomes. In the row, Chromosomes, the number means the total number of chromosomes, while L denotes linear. Se-dup means segment duplication.

	C. tubulosa	C. salsa	C. deserticola
Size (bp)	3,978,341	1,708,661	1,860,774
Chromosomes	12 L	6 L	4 L
GC%	44.57	44.52	44.59
Genes	126	75	82
Protein coding	65	41	37
tRNA	58	31	39
rRNA	4	3	5
Se-dup-Number	168	14	39
Se-dup-Size (bp)	2,142,551	199,584	463,566