Table 2 Features of Musa genes in comparison with those of Arabidopsis and rice.
From: Insights into the Musa genome: Syntenic relationships to rice and between Musa species
| Â | Musa 1 | Arabidopsis2 | Rice3 |
|---|---|---|---|
GC content: overall (%) | 39.0 | 36.0 | 43.5 |
Exons (%) | 48.4 | 44.2 | 53.1 |
Introns (%) | 38.4 | 32.3 | 38.7 |
Intergenic (%) | 38.5 | 31.2 | 41.4 |
Exon length (bp) | 252 | 276 | 312 |
Intron length (bp) | 366 | 169 | 364 |
Number of exons/gene | 4.8 | 5.4 | 4.2 |
Gene length (bp) | 2,504 | 2,232 | 2,519 |
Protein length (aa) | 411 | 417 | 437 |
Gene density (kb/gene) | 4.1 | 4.5 | 6.2 |