Table 1 General features of A. subglobosum and other dictyostelid genomes

Phylogeny group

2

4

4

2

1

Genome size (Mbp)^a

31

34

33

33

31

 Chromosome number

18

6

7

6

 Supercontigs

106

6

799

41

25

 Contigs

371

226

1,213

52

33

 Genome (A + T) content (%)

55.0

77.6

68.0

66.2

Protein coding genes

12722^b

13213

12410

12373

12173

 Gene density (CDS/Mbp)

410

396

376

375

392

 tRNAs

167^c

390

273

198

 Simple sequence repeat (%)

3.8

11.0

4.4

 DNA transposons

1

215

 LTR transposons

13

315

1.1 Mb

 Non-LTR transposons

57

235

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