Table 1 |
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General features of bacterial, yeast, nematode and mammalian genomes |
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Species |
Genome size (Mbp) |
Repetitive sequences (%) |
Transcriptional units |
Protein-coding genes |
Introns |
References |
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Escherichia coli |
4.6 |
0.7 |
5,471 |
4,288 |
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
12 |
3.2 |
6,682 |
6,183 |
233 |
[13] |
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Caenorhabditis elegans |
100.3 |
16.5 |
19,646 |
18,808 |
99,237 |
[73] |
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Caenorhabditis briggsae |
104 |
22.4 |
20,469 |
19,507 |
94,832 |
[73] |
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Mus musculus |
2,500 |
40 |
33,409 |
22,011 |
191,500 |
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Homo sapiens |
2,900 |
44 |
25,003 |
22,808 |
177,000 |
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Shabalina and Spiridonov Genome Biology 2004 5:105 |
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