Table 1 Overview of H. akashiwo strains CCMP 452 and NIES 293 chloroplast genomes

Length (bp)

160,149

159,370

   Small Single Copy

39,035

38,834

   Large Single Copy

77,470

77,206

   Inverted Repeat

21,822

21,665

G+C content (%)

30.5

30.4

Protein coding (%)

68.5

69.0

Avg. protein length

703

704

Protein coding genes

156

156

   With assigned function

130

130

   Conserved hypothetical (ycf)

19

19

   Hypothetical

7

7

Ribosomal RNA operons

2

2

Transfer RNA genes

34

34

Pseudo tRNA genes

1

1

tmRNA genes

1

1