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Table 1 Summary of chlorarachniophyte nucleomorph and plastid genomes

From: Nucleomorph and plastid genome sequences of the chlorarachniophyte Lotharella oceanica: convergent reductive evolution and frequent recombination in nucleomorph-bearing algae

Nucleomorph

L. oceanica

B. natans

Total genome size (bp)

~611,658

372,879

chr. 1 size (bp)

~210,000

140,598

chr. 2 size (bp)

207,543

134,144

chr. 3 size (bp)

194,115

98,137

G + C content (%)

33.0 (24.0*)

28.5 (25.1*)

# of introns

1,011

951**

# of tRNAs

19

19

Average intergenic spacer size (bp)

147.4(140.9*)

82.1

# of protein genes

610

284**

# of non-redundant protein genes

348

283

Plastid

L. oceanica

B. natans

Total genome size (bp)

70,997

~69,000

# of protein genes

60

61

G + C content (%)

30.6

30.2

# of tRNAs

28

31

  1. *Calculated with subtelomeric regions excluded.
  2. **Numbers updated from original publication (Gilson et al. [17]).