Table 1 Features of the Haemonchus contortus draft genome

Total number of base pairs within assembled scaffolds

319,640,208

Total number of scaffolds; contigs

14,419; 930,981

N50 length in bp; total number > 2 kb in length

56,328; 11,000

N90 length in bp; total number > N90 length

13,105; 6,085

GC content of the whole genome (%)

42.4

Repetitive sequences (%)

13.4

Proportion of genome that is coding (exonic; incl. introns) (%)

8.6; 43.3

Number of putative coding genes

23,610

Gene size (mean bp)

6,167

Average coding domain length (mean bp)

835

Average exon number per gene (mean)

7

Gene exon length (mean bp)

139

Gene intron length (mean bp)

832

GC content in coding regions (%)

45.4

Number of transfer RNAs

449