Table 2 Peltaster fructicola nuclear genome statistics and comparison to other fungal species with highly compact genome

Chromosomes (count)

5

NA^a

NA^a

16

Genome size (Mb)

18.99

13.3

8.1

12.07

GC content (%)

51.95

49.5

29.1

38.3

Protein coding genes (count)

8072

5735

3898

6002

Exons per gene (count)

2.32

2.1

3.7

1.13

Introns per gene (count)

1.36

NA^a

4.7^b

0.06

tRNA genes (count)

44

169

71

275

rDNA copies (count)

9

1

5

~ 560^b

Intergenic distance (median, bp)

463

NA^a

326

350

Intergenic regions (%)

31

36

29

26

Intron distance (median, bp)

50

NA^a

45

111

Telomere repeat unit

TAGGG

TTAGGG

TTAGGG

T(G)_2–3(TG)_1–6

Repeat content (%)

0.34

1.5

9.8

5.13

Data source

Current study

From reference [8]

From reference [8]

Analysis in this study. NCBI R64 genome version was used