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Table 1 Characteristics of four human blood flukes (Schistosome mekongi, S. mansoni, S. japonicum, and S. haematobium) and their genome information

From: Chromosome-scale genome of the human blood fluke Schistosoma mekongi and its implications for public health

Genomic features

S. mekongi

S. mansoni

S. japonicum

S. haematobium

BioProject

This study

PRJEA36577

PRJCA010213

PRJNA78265

Genome size (Mb)

404

391

406

400

Number of scaffolds

1285

10

100

163

Scaffold N50 (bp)

46,759,691

46,471,573

49,539,924

48,328,128

Number of contigs

1921

366

655

208

Contig N50 (bp)

1,168,079

4,678,053

2,378,822

20,231,032

GC content (%)

34.81

35.47

33.92

35.16

Number of protein coding genes

9103

9920

9760

9431