Transcriptome of the dead: characterisation of immune genes and marker development from necropsy samples in a free-ranging marine mammal

Table 2 Summary of 454 sequence data obtained from the Antarctic fur seal

	Testis	Heart	Spleen	Intestine	Kidney	Lung	Skin
Number of reads	97,799	38,332	275,366	167,555	336,223	130,946	1,443,397
Mean read length	823	689	597	567	546	740	542
Total base pairs (bp)	33,342,585	12,996,565	90,644,969	57,138,133	108,713,181	44,519,491	412,933,200

Results are given separately for each type of tissue obtained at necropsy as well as for a normalised cDNA library previously generated from skin biopsy samples[29].

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