Genomic analysis of novel Yarrowia-like yeast symbionts associated with the carrion-feeding burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

Table 5 Assembly statistics for mitochondrial (mt) genomes of Yarrowia-like yeast strains

Feature	Clade I mt-genomes		Clade II mt-genomes
Feature	C11	E02	B02	F05	H10
Mitochondrial genomes [nt]	50,623	50,627	28,621	28,658	28,527
G + C content [%]	20.30	20.29	23.30	23.31	23.26
Number of protein coding mt-genes	13*	14	12*	11*	13*
Number of mt-introns	17	17	4	4	4
Total length of mt-introns [nt]	14,073	14,074	2846	2564	2487

*We identified homologous regions matching all 14 protein coding genes in the mitochondrial reference genomes of YLYs, but some of these regions are non-functional due to sequence variations and nonsense mutations

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