Table 1 Features of the Steinernema draft genomes

Estimated genome size (Mb)

85.6

79.4

82.4

92.9

89.3

N50 (bp)

299,566

90,783

47,472

37,444

11,556

N90 (bp)

54,505

15,213

7,098

7,610

2,984

N10 (bp)

979,322

496,671

303,346

112,910

31,326

Number of scaffolds

1,578

2,877

5,839

7,515

14,331

GC content (%)

45.53

47.98

46.99

47.63

42.01

N content (Mb)

2.39

0.76

2.76

3.37

4.34

N content (%)

2.80

0.96

3.36

3.64

4.87

Maximum scaffold size (bp)

1,722,607

1,149,164

1,470,990

339,094

110,081

Number of Augustus-predicted genes

28,313

31,378

33,459

34,143

36,007

Number of Augustus-predicted transcripts

31,944

33,149

36,434

37,120

38,381

Average gene length (bp)

2,030

1,842

1,730

1,855

1,604

Average intron length (bp)

194

153

154

218

161

Average exon length (bp)

212

224

220

216

217

Average intergenic distance (bp)

1,105

723

746

930

761

Average number of exons per gene

5

4

4

4

4

Average number of introns per gene

4

3

3

3

3

GC content in coding regions (%)

51.86

51.92

51.08

53.68

46.92

Number of genes with no introns

4676

5611

6230

7521

6171

Repeat content (%)

7.46

2.75

6.70

5.34

10.49