Metatranscriptome analysis reveals bacterial symbiont contributions to lower termite physiology and potential immune functions

Table 1 Summary table of custom termite consortium database

Composition of custom termite consortium database
Group	Source	No. of Seqs.
Archaea	NCBI Archaea RefSeq	851,375
Bacteria	NCBI Bacteria RefSeq	44,100,533
Protist	NCBI RefSeq for Parabasalia, Oxymonadida, Diplomonadida, and Gregarinasina	72,948
Termite	OGS for Zootermopsis nevadensis	14,610
	Total sequences	45,039,466

Database was constructed to annotate the metatranscriptome in a taxon specific manner. Archaeal, bacterial, and protist sequences were obtained from the NCBI RefSeq database and termite sequences were obtained from the Zootermopsis nevadensis official gene set (OGS)

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