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Table 1 Libraries, sequencing metrics and assembly

From: Transcriptome of the adult female malaria mosquito vector Anopheles albimanus

A: Tissue and sequencing platform

Tissue source

Illumina (reads)

454

Sanger

(reads)

(reads)

Midgut

210 x106

62,703c,e

1,017

Abdominal cuticle a

 

111,566c

605

Dorsal vessel

 

233,984d

 

Salivary gland

  

1,038

Whole female b

  

2,121

Totals

210 x10 6

408,253

4,781

B: Transcript composition

 

Transcripts

(%)

Transcripts with Illumina reads

15,764

94.4

Transcripts with 454 reads

8,060

48.3

Transcripts with Sanger reads

1,051

6.3

C: Transcript assembly summary

Total transcripts

  

16,699

Total bases (Mbp)

  

16.1

Mean contig length (bp)

  

970

N50 (bp)

  

1,434

  1. a Includes abdominal fat body.
  2. b Inoculated with S. marcescens.
  3. c Flx. 250 bp read length.
  4. d Titanium 400 bp read length.
  5. eP. vivax infected and non-infected.