CGC1, a new reference genome for Caenorhabditis elegans

Table 1.

Chromosome lengths and tandem repeat lengths of different C. elegans genome assemblies

CGC1 (nt) VC2010 (nt) Difference of CGC1 from VC2010 (nt) N2 (nt) Difference of CGC1 from N2(nt)
Chromosome lengths
 I 16,508,284 15,331,301 1,176,983 15,072,434 1,435,850
 II 15,800,154 15,525,148 275,006 15,279,421 520,733
 III 14,624,068 14,108,536 515,532 13,783,801 840,267
 IV 18,555,121 17,759,200 795,921 17,493,829 1,061,292
 V 22,067,386 21,243,235 824,151 20,924,180 1,143,206
 X 18,785,586 18,110,855 674,731 17,718,942 1,066,644
 MtDNA 13,994 13,988 6 13,794 200
 Total 106,354,593 102,092,263 4,262,330 100,286,401 6,068,192
Length of 174 > 5 kb tandem repeats in each chromosome
 I 1,448,169 300,262 1,147,907 98,083 1,350,086
 II 560,095 285,098 274,997 100,630 459,465
 III 904,536 410,543 496,012 164,534 740,002
 IV 1,151,459 353,570 797,889 113,950 1,037,509
 V 1,168,580 432,266 736,314 152,978 1,015,602
 X 1,111,883 448,391 663,527 137,334 974,549
 MtDNA 0 0 0 0 0
 Total 6,344,722 2,230,130 4,116,646 767,509 5,577,213

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