Billions of basepairs of recently expanded, repetitive sequences are eliminated from the somatic genome during copepod development

Table 1 Summary statistics from shotgun 454 sequencing of Mesocyclops edax genomes

Genome	Genome size	reads	Average read length	% coverage	Total basepairs
Germline	15 Gb	612,470	183	0.76%	112,985,236
Somatic	3 Gb	207,451	216	1.6%	44,863,930

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