Table 1 Quality metrics for the donkey genome assembly generated in the current work and for other donkey and horse genome assemblies published in previous studies.

From: Donkey genomes provide new insights into domestication and selection for coat color

 

Donkey

Horse

 

This study

Renaud et al. (2018)

Huang et al. (2015)

EquCab3.0

EquCab2.0

Total number of scaffolds

43

9021

2167

4701

9687

N50 contigs

7.92 Mb

140.3 kb

66.7 kb

4.50 Mb

112 kb

N50 scaffolds (Mb)

93.37

15.4

3.8

87.23

46.75

Coverage

211×

61.2×

42.4×

88.0×

6.8×

Total bases (Gb)

2.432

2.320

2.391

2.507

2.475

Largest scaffold (Mb)

209.96

84.20

17.06

Total number of predicted protein-coding genes

21,983

18,984

23,850

20,421