Protein-coding genes of Obscuromonas spp. were predicted and annotated by Companion Protozoa v1.0.2 (Steinbiss et al. 2016). Predicted proteins shorter than 30 aa were removed from the datasets
The gene prediction yielded a total of 10,475 genes, with an average gene length of 20,039 bp, an average CDS length of 1,701 bp, an average exons number per gene at 9, an average exon length of 199 b