Dictyostelium discoideum Genome Statistics
| Genome Information (excluding mitochondrial genome) 1 |
| Genome size |
34 Mb |
| Chromosomes |
6 |
| Chromosome size range |
3.5-8.6 Mb |
| Overall GC content |
22.4% |
| Mitochondrial Genome 2 |
| Mitochondrial genome size |
55.6 kb |
| Number of mitochondrial genes |
41 |
| Mitochondrial GC content |
27.4% |
| Gene Information (excluding non-protein-coding genes) 1 |
| Mean gene size |
1,756 bp |
| Mean protein size |
518 aa |
| Gene spacing |
2.5 kb |
| GC content in exons |
27% |
| GC content in introns |
12% |
| GC content in intergenic regions |
15% |
| Gene Structure |
| Number of genes with introns |
9,226 |
| Mean intron size 1 |
146 bp |
| Mean number of introns per spliced gene 1 |
1.9 |
| Gene Status |
| Number of genes |
13,607 |
| Number of curated gene models |
3,919 |
| Genes published in the literature |
2,018 |
| Genes with experimentally derived GO annotations |
619 |
| Genes with GO annotations inferred from sequence similarity |
2,198 |
| Number of metabolic pathways |
213 |
| Number of genes in metabolic pathways |
606 |
| Publications |
| PubMed references for Dictyostelium discoideum |
6,133 |
| References linked to genes |
2,972 |
| References used for GO annotations |
574 |
| Non-Protein-Coding Genes |
| rRNA genes (extrachromasomal) 3 |
800 |
| tRNA genes |
418 |
| Small nuclear RNA (snRNA) genes 4 |
18 |
| Small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) genes 5 |
19 |
| Other non-coding RNA (ncRNA) genes 5 |
35 |
| Pseudogenes 6 |
1,910 |
| Expression Data 7 |
| Number of ESTs |
155,036 |
| Genes with ESTs |
6,801 |
| Transposable Elements 8 |
| Tdd-4 |
40 |
| Tdd-5 |
5 |
| DDT-A |
20 |
| DDT-B |
20 |
| DDT-S |
130 |
| thug-S |
10 |
| thug-T |
10 |
| DIRS-1 |
235 |
| Skipper |
60 |
| DGLT-A |
20 |
| DGLT-B |
<10 |
| TRE3-A |
60 |
| TRE3-B |
50 |
| TRE3-C |
30 |
| TRE3-D |
5 |
| TRE5-A |
70 |
| TRE5-B |
15 |
| TRE5-C |
5 |
1) Eichinger et al. (2005)
2) Ogawa et al. (2000)
3) Sucgang et al. (2003)
4) Hinas et al. (2006)
5) Aspegren et al. (2004)
6) William Loomis, personal communication (2005)
7) Urushihara et al. (2004)
8) Winckler et al. (2005)
All information on this page is as present in dictyBase at time of update, unless otherwise noted.
Last Updated October 9, 2006
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