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Table 2 Features of potato and tomato BAC sequences.

From: Analysis of 90 Mb of the potato genome reveals conservation of gene structures and order with tomato but divergence in repetitive sequence composition

Feature

Potato Syntenic BACs

Tomato Syntenic BACs

Random Potato BACs

Exons per gene

5.1

5.1

4.2

Exon length(bp)1

266 (18.9%)

279 (18.6%)

222 (10.9%)

Intron length(bp)1

441 (25.2%)

408 (21.8%)

457 (17.0%)

Gene length(bp)1

3,148 (44.1%)

3,086 (40.4%)

2,401 (27.9%)

Exon GC content

42%

42%

42%

Intron GC content

34%

34%

33%

Gene GC content

38%

38%

38%

CDS/ORF GC content

43%

43%

42%

First position GC

50%

49%

49%

Second position GC

40%

41%

41%

Third position GC

38%

39%

38%

  1. 1 Percentages within the sequences analyzed are enclosed in the brackets.