A de novo transcriptome of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, to identify candidate transcripts for diapause preparation

Table 4 Number of ESTs assigned to each genomic database

Reference organism	Number of matches, initial EST set	Number of matches, final EST set
Ae. albopictus	1,011	52
Ae. aegypti transcripts	91,461	10,005
Ae. aegypti genome, annotated	1,422	142
Ae. aegypti genome, unannotated	10,736	N/A
Ae. aegypti peptides	2,993	556
Cx. quinquefasciatus.	1,167	550
An. gambiae	103	79
D. melanogaster	21	16
C. elegans	25	19
Swiss-Prot	4,331	86
total number of matches	113,270	11,505
no hit (contigs)	6,775	N/A
no hit (singletons)	37,077	N/A
total number of contigs	69,474	N/A
total number of singletons	87,648	N/A

Both the preliminary EST set and final, trimmed EST set are listed (see Methods).

ISSN: 1471-2164