A draft genome of the striped catfish, Pangasianodon hypophthalmus, for comparative analysis of genes relevant to development and a resource for aquaculture improvement

Table 1 Comparison of the Pangasianodon hypophthalmus genome annotation with those of four other fishes

	Actinopterygii
	Neopterygii
	Acanthopterygii		Ostariophysi
	Oryzias latipes ^a	Takifugu rubripes ^a	Danio rerio ^a	Ictalurus punctatus ^b	Pangasianodon hypophthalmus
Number of genes	19,686	18,523	26,039	27,395	28,580
Median gene length (bp)	6137	4116	12,342	8668	7316
Median transcripts length (bp)	1242	1311	1741	2769	978
Median exon length (bp)	119	122	124	137	119
Median intron length (bp)	246	142	980	544	564

ISSN: 1471-2164