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Table 1 Summary statistics of the Pacific oyster cDNA libraries.

From: Generation and analysis of a 29,745 unique Expressed Sequence Tags from the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) assembled into a publicly accessible database: the GigasDatabase

Description

Tissue

Vector used

No. of sequences retrieved

No. of valid sequences

Average length insert (bp)

cDNA gonad *

gonad

PAL32CV

12162

8809

511

cDNA embryos and larvae and central nervous system (GENOSCOPE)

embryos, larvae, CNS

pAL17.3

13191

12730

618

cDNA hemocytes (GENOSCOPE)

hemocyte

pBluscriptIISK+

14472

13773

415

cDNA digestive gland subtracted library (AQUAFIRST)

digestive gland

PCR2.1

1536

1362

428

cDNA mantle-edge subtracted library (AQUAFIRST)

mantle-edge

PCR2.1

1536

1343

405

cDNA hemocyte subtracted library (AQUAFIRST)

hemocyte

PCR2.1

1152

125

291

cDNA gonad subtracted library (AQUAFIRST)

gonad

PCR2.1

768

559

382

cDNA muscle subtracted library (AQUAFIRST)

muscle

PCR2.1

1536

1117

312

cDNA gills subtracted library (AQUAFIRST)

gills

PCR2.1

1536

1027

359

Total

  

47889

40845

Mean: 413

  1. * Library partially published in Tanguy et al.[25] with 1894 sequenced clones.