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Table 1 Summary of transcript assembly for LSK and rowi

From: Sixteen kiwi (Apteryx spp) transcriptomes provide a wealth of genetic markers and insight into sex chromosome evolution in birds

 

LSK

Rowi

Total number of read pairs

348,651,735

502,602,280

Number of reads mapped to hemoglobin

68,514,883

81,642,635

Total number of contigs

215,094

207,470

Number of contigs with predicted ORF > 100aa

20,152

23,830

Mean transcript length (ORF > 100aa)

2,225bp

2,847bp

Mean ORF length (ORF > 100aa)

917bp

1,129bp

Number of possible chicken orthologues

7,908

8,631

  1. Greater than 20 thousand contigs in each of LSK and rowi have a full or partial open reading frame (ORF) greater than 100 amino acids and thus a predicted protein coding sequence. Within species, approximately 8000 of these contigs show strong homology to chicken protein sequences