Contiguous and complete assemblies of Blastocystis gut microbiome–associated protists reveal evolutionary diversification to host ecology

Table 1.

Genome assembly statistics for all genomes used in this study

Species Strain Subtype Source Citation Scaffolds (#) Size (Mb) N50 (kb) GC content (% GC) BUSCO contenta Protein-coding genes
Blastocystis sp. JDR 1 Human This study 114 17.5 550 54.5% 61.2% 7891
Blastocystis sp. NandII 1 Human This study 54 16.0 939 54.7% 61.2% 7157
Blastocystis sp. NMH 3 Human This study 36 14.6 582 51.3% 58.0% 6571
Blastocystis sp. DL 3 Human This study 56 14.0 506 51.6% 55.7% 6154
Blastocystis sp. BT1 4 Human This study 34 15.3 882 39.4% 57.6% 7421
Blastocystis sp. Rus-B N/A Russian tortoise This study 33 33.3 1323 23.1% 43.2% 8547
Blastocystis sp. Rus-S N/A Russian tortoise This study 258 26.1 505 21.8% 42.0% 8501
Blastocystis sp. Hermanns N/A Hermann's tortoise This study 229 27.1 289 21.5% 42.4% 8349
Blastocystis sp. WR1 4 Laboratory Wistar rat No publication 1301 12.9 30 39.5% 56.5% 5707
Blastocystis sp. NandII 1 Human Gentekaki et al. 2017 580 16.5 79 55.0% 61.1% 6544
Blastocystis sp. Singapore 7 Human Denoeud et al. 2011 54 18.8 901b 45.0% 52.2% 6020
Proteromonas lacertae LA N/A Sand lizard Záhonová et al. 2023c 1447 52.2 93 27.0% 62.7% 23,189
Cafeteria burkhardae BVI N/A Environmental Hackl et al. 2020 169 36.3 465 70.0% 54.9% 8591
  • aBUSCO version 5.6.1 with eukaryote_odb10 lineage, metaeuk genome mode.

  • bGapped scaffold N50.

  • cCitation for genome only. Annotations not publicly available and generated for comparative genomics in this work.

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  1. Genome Res. 35: 1377-1390

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