Table 1 Statistics of the compared pepper and tomato gene-rich sequences

Total length of compared sequence

985,237 bp

490,745 bp

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Number of predicted genes

75

70

145

Total length of predicted genes

247,338 bp

195,342 bp

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Gene density

13,136 bp/gene

7,011 bp/gene

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Genes paired into orthologous set

69

67

136 (94%)

Genes that have no ortholog

6

3

9 (6%)

Duplicated genes

18

19

37 (25%)

Average length of coding region

1,366 bp

1,332 bp

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Average length of intron

1,815 bp

1,459 bp

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