Generation and analysis of ESTs from the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica Gmelin and identification of microsatellite and SNP markers

Table 2 Statistics of BLASTX searches

Number of unique sequences	4,688
Number of unique sequences with BLASTX hits	2,174
Percentage of unique sequences with BLASTX hits	46.4
Number of contigs containing
2 ESTs	500
3 ESTs	108
4 ESTs	19
5 ESTs (homologues of actin, tubulin, and two unknown genes)	4
6 ESTs (all unknown)	3
51 ESTs (homologous to oyster mitochondrial genome)	1

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