Sequencing, de novo annotation and analysis of the first Anguilla anguilla transcriptome: EeelBase opens new perspectives for the study of the critically endangered european eel

Table 3 Comparison among contig sequences annotated by similarity search against nr database and contig sequences without any significant hit.

Average	Contigs with nr BLAST hits	Contigs without nr BLAST hits	t-test p-value
Length	666.8	479.2	<2.2E-16
Average quality	50.17	42.77
GC content	46.97	39.34

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