Selaginella moellendorffii is a lycophyte that is an important model organism, especially in comparative genomics. S. moellendorffii is a member of an ancient vascular plant lineage that first appeared in the fossil record some 400 million years ago. They would later form a dominant part of the world's flora during the Carboniferous period. They have a number of unusual and/or "primitive" features, such as rudimentary leaves (microphylls), ubiquitous dichotomous branching, heterospory, and the ligule. As the earliest diverging group of modern vascular plants, they are essential to understanding the evolution of plants as a whole.

Sequence Statistics

No Sequences34697
No Amino Acids13572987
Min Seq. Length49
Avg. Seq. Length391.186
Max Seq. Length8462
Seq. Length 1σ303.919

Disorder Prediction Statistics

Predictor % Genome Disordered % Genome Disordered in SCOP Domains Avg. % of Seq. Disordered Avg. % of Disordered Regions in SCOP Domains Avg. % of Seq. Disordered and in SCOP Domains
VLXT 27.778 7.970 27.719 34.162 8.445
VSL2b 29.852 6.708 30.336 29.973 7.466
PrDOS 29.239 4.718 29.766 23.462 5.267
PV2 35.661 8.235 36.633 30.212 8.989
IUPred-S 12.087 1.288 12.752 17.144 1.767
IUPred-L 11.977 1.322 14.903 25.322 2.059
Espritz-N 20.934 4.108 20.396 26.844 4.185
Espritz-X 12.427 1.040 13.743 14.303 1.597
Espritz-D 5.190 0.790 33.667 17.289 10.506

SUPERFAMILY Domains

% Amino Acids with SCOP Assignment % Sequences with SCOP Assignment No of Domains No of Superfamilies No of Families Avg. Family Size Avg. Domain Length Domain Pairs Unique Domain Architectures
46 61 29628 967 800 30.6 391 998 3356

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