Table 1 Genomic features of T. hydatigena in comparison with other tapeworms.

From: The genome of the thin-necked bladder worm Taenia hydatigena reveals evolutionary strategies for helminth survival

Assembly feature

T. hydatigena

T. solium

T. saginata

E. multilocularis

E. granulosus

H. microstoma

Assembled sequences (Mb)

309

122

169

115

115

169

Repetitive content (%)*

63.3

13.5

33.5

13.8

13.0

24.6

Number of scaffolds

294

11,237

3626

1217

371

7

Longest scaffold size (Mb)

8.7

0.7

7.3

20.1

16.0

43.0

Scaffold N50 (Mb)

1.8

0.1

0.6

13.8

5.2

25.8

Scaffold N90 (kb)

562

5.3

29

2924

213

17,546

Contig N50 (kb)

0.3

0.1

0.5

11.3

0.2

5.8

Contig N90 (kb)

67

4

4

191

13

1209

GC content in genome (%)

43.0

42.9

43.2

42.2

41.9

36.4

Number of gene models

11,358

12,467

13,161

10,663

10,245

10,139

  1. The statistics are based on the assembly version 1.2 for T. hydatigena and Wormbase ParaSite version WBPS15 for other tapeworms. *The repetitive content for each genome was calculated based on the same pipeline in this study. Mb megabases, kb kilobases.
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