Comparative analysis of expressed sequence tags from three castes and two life stages of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

Table 1 Basic characteristics of the five cDNA libraries used in this study.

	Worker	Alate	Soldier	Early Larval	Late Larval
No. clones sequenced	4031	3836	3548	2111	1733
Total <150 bp (discarded)	1069	330	705	99	113
Min. mean insert size (bp) ¹	570	1086	638	681	416
Gene discovery rate ²	60%	47%	58%	56%	51%
Unigenes	1787	1639	1637	1136	792

¹ Minimum mean insert size was calculated as the total number of basepairs (after sequence trimming, vector removal, and discarding of sequences less than 150 bp) divided by the number of clones sequenced.
² Gene discovery rate was calculated as the number of contigs divided by total number of clones sequenced.

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