Massively parallel pyrosequencing-based transcriptome analyses of small brown planthopper (Laodelphax striatellus), a vector insect transmitting rice stripe virus (RSV)

Table 1 General features of L. striatellus EST libraries

	Viruliferous sample	Naïve sample	Combined sample
Total bases (bp)	44741850	51825899	96567749
High-quality reads^a	201281	218681	419962
Average reads length (bp)	222	237	230
Number of contigs	9936	9417	16885
Average contig length (bp)	376	362	384
Range of contig length (bp)	60~3752	61~4182	61~8651
Number of reads in contigs	174662	165212	383067
Number of singletons	14331	14117	24607
Unigenes (contigs + singletons)	24267	23534	41492
Matched CDSs ^b	22664	22447	38019
Specific sequences	15746	14318	-

a. Adaptors and low-quality reads were excluded.
b. Matched CDS means the number of predicted protein coding sequences from unigenes.

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