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Table 1 General characteristics of the coding region

From: The fungus Ustilago maydis and humans share disease-related proteins that are not found in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  

S. cerevisiae

U. maydis

H. sapiens

Percent coding

(%)

73.09

60.97

1.22 -2.33

GC content

(%)

39.58

56.26

52.10

Average gene size

(bp)

1451

1747

1526

Average gene density

(kb/gene)

1.99

2.86

125.43

Protein-coding genes

 

6127

6867

22762

Exons

 

6482

9932

267941

Average exon size

(bp)

1372

1208

297

Exons per gene

 

1.058

1.45

6.149

Genes with introns

(%)

4.81

27.73

97.96

  1. the predicted number increases to 43576 when including splice variants.
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BMC Genomics

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