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Table 3 Average cDNA pool coverages by enzyme combination across 92 eukaryotes.

From: Eukaryotic transcriptomics in silico: Optimizing cDNA-AFLP efficiency

Enzyme Combination

Coverage ± SD

Min-Max Coverage

R2

Regression Equation

MseI & CviAII

76.13 ± 10.51

42.07 - 91.97

0.94

Nbp = 1849399*AF+294835

CviAII & CviQI

72.55 ± 10.32

46.44 - 93.68

0.98

Nbp = 1924913*AF+1067365

CviAII & TaqI

69.56 ± 13.62

32.19 - 96.94

0.85

Nbp = 2152800*AF+933639

MseI & CviQI

66.63 ± 10.32

36.63 - 86.15

0.94

Nbp = 2731950*AF-862614

CviAII & MaeII

64.16 ± 13.93

33.34 - 91.88

0.91

Nbp = 2309466*AF+1759142

MaeI & CviAII

63.20 ± 11.42

21.81 - 85.13

0.90

Nbp = 2306663*AF+3307692

MseI & TaqI

62.69 ± 14.23

28.35 - 90.91

0.72

Nbp = 2995858*AF+626737

HpaII & CviAII

62.00 ± 18.32

9.45 - 93.30

0.94

Nbp = 1890564*AF+3666024

TaqI & CviQI

61.26 ± 14.41

25.91 - 94.55

0.76

Nbp = 2726475*AF+2079328

MseI & MaeI

58.28 ± 12.22

27.61 - 79.49

0.84

Nbp = 2852998*AF+2622539

MseI & MaeII

57.15 ± 12.86

29.81 - 84.18

0.85

Nbp = 3630319*AF-565133

MaeII & CviQI

55.70 ± 15.43

23.57 - 88.18

0.85

Nbp = 3156237*AF+1906975

MaeI & CviQI

54.91 ± 11.08

21.14 - 81.68

0.91

Nbp = 3400108*AF+2063017

TaqI & MaeII

54.86 ± 17.23

19.16 - 92.44

0.64

Nbp = 2762584*AF+4754785

HpaII & MseI

54.39 ± 14.73

12.13 - 87.81

0.92

Nbp = 3607697*AF+484514

HpaII & CviQI

54.14 ± 18.34

9.05 - 91.74

0.88

Nbp = 2623528*AF+3657451

HinP1I & CviAII

53.57 ± 19.96

5.08 - 95.05

0.85

Nbp = 2260683*AF+4996193

HpaII & TaqI

53.54 ± 19.47

8.04 - 93.28

0.72

Nbp = 2433331*AF+5040020

MaeI & TaqI

52.26 ± 13.47

17.71 - 85.30

0.80

Nbp = 4183276*AF+518528

HpaII & MaeII

49.93 ± 19.70

5.49 - 89.29

0.79

Nbp = 2690086*AF+4940474

HinP1I & CviQI

47.88 ± 19.79

5.27 - 89.77

0.79

Nbp = 2909507*AF+5271739

MaeI & MaeII

47.76 ± 12.04

15.32 - 78.81

0.93

Nbp = 4923589*AF-278386

HinP1I & TaqI

47.32 ± 20.70

4.26 - 91.43

0.63

Nbp = 2600056*AF+7269281

HinP1I & MseI

46.22 ± 15.07

6.86 - 87.60

0.84

Nbp = 4211767*AF+2594577

HpaII & MaeI

45.75 ± 15.11

4.16 - 80.64

0.92

Nbp = 4048888*AF+3106105

HinP1I & HpaII

45.05 ± 22.78

1.36 - 94.75

0.78

Nbp = 2272295*AF+6925901

HinP1I & MaeII

44.15 ± 20.69

4.08 - 89.75

0.71

Nbp = 2937393*AF+6703632

HinP1I & MaeI

39.00 ± 15.30

2.53 - 77.47

0.89

Nbp = 5159080*AF+3260514

  1. Descriptive statistics on the average cDNA pool coverage obtained for each enzyme combination across all 92 species (see additional file 1), sorted by decreasing mean coverage. The average coverage by enzyme combination and standard deviation (Coverage ± SD) are indicated, as are the minimum and maximum cDNA pool coverages for individual enzyme combinations (Min-Max Coverage). R-Square indicates the correlation coefficient for the relationship of total cDNA pool size (Nbp) and the average number of fragments produced per selective PCR (AF). The linear regression equation for this relationship is indicated.