Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade

BMC Genomics

Table 3 Assembly comparison to 454 transcriptome data

Tissue	Total assembled transcripts	Amel_4.5		Amel_4.0
Tissue	Total assembled transcripts	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Abdomen	14,614	13,980	95.6%	13,987	95.7%
Brain + ovary	27,412	26,341	96.0%	26,342	96.0%
Embryo	19,616	18,565	94.6%	18,565	94.6%
Larvae	18,050	9,061	50.1%	9,041	50.0%
Mixed antennae	14,891	13,868	93.1%	13,865	93.1%
Ovary	28,451	27,500	96.6%	26,929	94.6%
Testes	10,557	9,234	87.4%	9,060	85.8%
Total	133,591	118,549	88.7%	117,789	88.2%

Note: BLAT alignments of the assembled transcripts to the genome assemblies using default parameters and counting matches of any length at 95% identity.

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