Table 2 |
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Features of Musa genes in comparison with those of Arabidopsis and rice. |
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Musa1 |
Arabidopsis2 |
Rice3 |
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GC content: overall (%) |
39.0 |
36.0 |
43.5 |
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Exons (%) |
48.4 |
44.2 |
53.1 |
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Introns (%) |
38.4 |
32.3 |
38.7 |
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Intergenic (%) |
38.5 |
31.2 |
41.4 |
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Exon length (bp) |
252 |
276 |
312 |
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Intron length (bp) |
366 |
169 |
364 |
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Number of exons/gene |
4.8 |
5.4 |
4.2 |
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Gene length (bp) |
2,504 |
2,232 |
2,519 |
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Protein length (aa) |
411 |
417 |
437 |
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Gene density (kb/gene) |
4.1 |
4.5 |
6.2 |
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1Based on 1.8 Mb of genomic sequences 2[18] 3[120] |
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Lescot et al. BMC Genomics 2008 9:58 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-58 |
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