Analyses of expressed sequence tags from the maize foliar pathogen Cercospora zeae-maydis identify novel genes expressed during vegetative, infectious, and reproductive growth

Table 1 EST libraries constructed for this study

Growth Conditions	Library Name	Insert size selection	Unique clones	Total unique ESTs	Insertless clones	Failed quality¹	Passing to cluster	Small insert (100–700 bp)	Total number with BLAST hits²	Average diversity (passing clones)
Vegetative	CBYB	2–8 kb	4,992	9,888	2082	806	7000	789	299	58.8%
	CBYC	0.6–2 kb	1536	3071	164	523	2384	194	260	72.6%
Sporulation	CBYF	2–8 kb	1536	3072	1314	173	1585	305	123	82.3%
	CBYG	0.6–2 kb	1152	2304	834	186	1284	335	139	76.8%
	CCAW	None	4608	9216	340	1327	7549	3291	744	43.4%

¹ Comprised of ESTs of low quality sequence, low complexity, and presumptive contaminants.
² Evaluated with BLASTn against the non-redundant database

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