Acrobeles complexus

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C. elegans
Chromosome Statistics

(from the 1998 genome sequiencing paper)

Distribution of coding genes and patterns of conservation

 

Chromosome

Genetic compartment

Size (Mb)

Size (Mb)

Protein Genes

Protein gene density per kb

tRNA genes

tRNA pseudogenes

coding %

% of protein genes with EST match

% of protein coding genes with a database match

I

L

13.86

3.29

649

5.06

7

2

21.59

57.0

53.9

C

5.59

1171

4.77

34

4

31.65

52.9

52.1

R

4.98

983

5.06

33

2

25.00

43.4

40.8

II

L

14.72

3.83

1049

3.65

29

13

29.00

22.7

26.9

C

7.93

1719

4.61

38

6

29.68

49.7

49.8

R

2.96

491

6.03

16

5

19.89

43.5

39.9

III

L

12.77

3.30

612

5.40

31

14

20.60

44.2

42.1

C

4.98

1100

4.52

42

0

32.21

53.5

53.5

R

4.49

796

5.66

21

3

23.91

53.1

50.2

IV

L

16.14

5.44

1050

5.17

38

16

20.87

39.9

39.7

C

6.51

1422

4.58

20

3

29.69

45.7

50.3

R

4.19

622

6.73

26

2

16.50

36.6

40.7

V

L

20.82

6.19

1491

4.15

17

4

27.00

22.0

33.0

C

6.84

1573

4.34

37

0

29.40

32.2

43.8

R

7.79

1018

4.36

152

94

25.50

19.5

28.8

X

 

17.22

 

2631

6.54

362

33

19.8

40.9

43.3

Total

 

95.53

 

19141

4.98

877

198

27

38.9

 

 


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