Genome size
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| Value | 3.4e+7 bp |
|---|---|
| Organism | Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum |
| Reference | Eichinger et al., The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Nature. 2005 May 5 435(7038):43-57. p. 44 table 1 Table - link PubMed ID15875012 |
| Method | Researchers used a whole-chromosome shotgun (WCS) strategy, partially purifying each chromosome electrophoretically and treating it as a separate project. This approach was supported by novel statistical tools to recover chromosome specificity from the impure WCS libraries, and by highly detailed HAPPY maps that provided a framework for sequence assembly. |
| Comments | The six chromosomal assemblies span 33,817 kb (Table 1), including ~156 kb in the form of clone-, sequence- and repeat gaps. Assuming that most of the floating contigs lie beyond the termini of the assemblies, the total genome size is estimated at 34,042,810 bp. |
| Entered by | Uri M |
| ID | 105513 |