Genomics and transcriptomics of epizoic Seisonidea (Rotifera, syn. Syndermata) reveal strain formation and gradual gene loss with growing ties to the host

Table 3 Characteristics of the S. nebaliae transcriptome

Metric	TA1 (GA1-guided) Genomes A + B	TA2 (GA2-guided) Genome B
Transcript number (minimum 200 bp)	72,072	34,859
Length of transcripts [bp]	97,940,784	45,737,361
Number of SuperTranscripts	47,106	23,214
Total length of SuperTranscripts [bp]	56,155,191	27,236,230
Mean length of SuperTranscripts [bp]	1192	1173
GC content of SuperTranscripts [%]	36.0	34.0
BUSCO – Metazoa genes* [%]	M = 34.3, D = 41.4	M = 35.2, D = 1.8

GA1 nuclear genome assembly 1, GA2 nuclear genome assembly 2, D duplicated BUSCOs, M missing BUSCO genes, TA1 transcriptome assembly 1, TA2 transcriptome assembly 2. Asterisks highlight references to BUSCO v. 4.0.6, database db10

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