Table 1 The statistics of the assembled genomes of P. vanderplanki and P. nubifer.

From: Comparative genome sequencing reveals genomic signature of extreme desiccation tolerance in the anhydrobiotic midge

Species

Number of chromosomes

Size of genome assembly (Mbp)

Scaffold N50 (Mbp)

GC content(%)

Repetitive content (%)

Known transposable elemnt (%)

Predicted number of genes

Number of genes in orthologous clusters with other species

Mean number of exons per gene (with >2 orthologues)

Mean exon length (bp)

Mean intron length (bp)

P. vanderplanki

4

104

0.23

28

5.01

0.26

17,137

14,317

5

324

533

P. nubifer

4

107

0.03

39

3.30

1.26

16,553

13,529

4

328

452