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Table 1 Genome statistics for H. meleagridis virulent and attenuated strains

From: Complete genomes of the eukaryotic poultry parasite Histomonas meleagridis: linking sequence analysis with virulence / attenuation

genomic feature

virulent strain

attenuated strain

number of contigs

187

281

Largest contig (bp)

3,384,422

1,157,039

Total length (bp)

43,414,808

43,133,364

N50 (bp)

673,467

314,021

GC content

28.66%

28.77%

Genes

11,119

11,137

Transcripts

11,119

11,137

Exons

11,692

11,775

Introns

573

638

Retroelements

32

23

Retroelements (bp)

5358 (0.01%)

2568 (0.01%)

DNA transposons

226

235

DNA transposons (bp)

96,463 (0.22%)

100,787 (0.23%)

Total interspersed repeats (bp)

101,821(0.23%)

103,355 bp (0.24%)

Simple repeats

14,135

13,433

Simple repeats (bp)

761,166 (1.75%)

704,125 (1.63%)

Low complexity regions

4320

4426

Low complexity regions (bp)

220,103 (0.51%)

228,092 (0.53%)