The transcript catalogue of the short-lived fish Nothobranchius furzeriprovides insights into age-dependent changes of mRNA levels

Table 4 BLASTx comparison of N. furzeri transcript contigs to the protein/gene annotation of four other fish genomes

	Medaka	Stickleback	Tetraodon	Zebrafish
Number of proteins/ genes annotated	24,661 / 19,686	27,576 / 20,787	23,118 / 19,602	41,478 / 26,095
Contigs with hits	87,378	84,761	79,594	87,219
Proteins/genes hit	19,272 / 17,173	20,534 / 17,795	18,613 / 16,744	22,669 / 18,620
Proteins/genes hit	78% / 87%	74% / 86%	81% / 85%	55% / 71%
Average protein identity	73.5%	74.6%	73.7%	67.5%
Contigs with hits exclusively in this species	2,791	1,256	531	2,791
Proteins/genes hit	914 / 914	690 / 690	356 / 356	942 / 942
Average protein identity	55.7%	57.0%	62.0%	49.5%

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