Comparative genomic analysis of six Glossina genomes, vectors of African trypanosomes

Table 1 Glossina species contig and scaffold assembly statistics

Scaffold length	Glossina morsitans	Glossina pallidipes	Glossina austeni	Glossina fuscipes	Glossina palpalis	Glossina brevipalpis
Total genomic coverage	100×	46×	50×	52×	58×	45×
Genome size (Mb)	366	357	370	374	380	315
> 1 Mb	13	102	78	70	63	81
250 kb–1 Mb	138	248	316	393	395	202
100–250 kb	605	184	248	330	326	136
10–100 kb	3663	290	379	496	709	257
5–10 kb	737	106	94	165	507	85
2–5 kb	1933	255	206	252	978	156
< 2 kb	6718	541	884	689	948	734
Total no. of contigs	24,071	7275	18,748	13,688	31,320	16,993
N50 contig length (kb)	49	167	46	64	24	62
Total no. of Scaffolds	13,807	1726	2205	2395	3926	1651
GC content (%)	33	35	34	34	34	27
N50 scaffold length (kb)	120	1038	812	561	575	1209
L50 (rank of N50 scaffold)	569	94	115	178	186	62
Repeat content (%)	34.95	35.49	38.64	37.09	35.49	37.67

N50 is defined as the minimum contig length needed to cover 50% of the genome. L50 is defined as the smallest number of contigs whose length sum makes up half of genome size

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