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Published in final edited form as: Nat Commun. 2015 Sep 10;6:8212. doi: 10.1038/ncomms9212

Table 1.

Comparison of reference genomes among Lepidopterans.

	Pm	Px	Hm	Dp	Bm	PLX
Chromosome Number (n)	31^a	30^a	21^b	29–30^c	28^e	31^f
Genome size (Mb) based on the bases in contigs and in scaffolds	265/281	231/244	274/269^b	242^c/249^d	432/481^e	385/394^f
Genome size (Mb) measured by C- value	234~256	218~238	300^g	290^g	520^g	NA
N50 of contig (Kb)/scaffold (Mb)	81/1.15	492/3.4	51/0.2^b	51 ^c/0.7 ^d	13/3.7^e	49/0.72^f
TE (% genome)	21.10	20.26	28.47^b	12.21 ^c	21.1^e	33.97 ^f
Number of protein- coding genes	15,499	15,322	15,984^h	16,866 ^c	14,623 ^e	18,071 ^f

Abbreviation: Papilio machaon (Pm), P. xuthus (Px), Heliconius melponene (Hm), Danaus plexippus (Dp), Bombyx mori (Bm), Plutella xylostella (PLX).

From (Maeki, 1957)⁵⁹;

From (Dasmahapatra et al., 2012)⁸;

From (Zhan et al., 2011)⁷;

From (Zhang et al., 2013)⁶⁰;

From (Xia et al., 2004)⁶¹;

From (You et al., 2013)¹³;

From (Gregory et al., 2007)⁶²;

Predicted in this study using the same pipeline as in Pm and Px.