Species and population specific gene expression in blood transcriptomes of marine turtles

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Quality assessment metrics of unfiltered and filtered transcriptome assemblies for multiple tissue types collected from four marine turtle species

	Loggerhead *- blood*		Hawksbill *- blood*		Green turtle *- blood*		Leatherback *- blood*		Leatherback *- brain*		Leatherback *- lung*		Leatherback *- ovary*
	raw	filtered	raw	filtered	raw	filtered	raw	filtered	raw	filtered	raw	filtered	raw	filtered
Total trinity transcripts	132,146	77,392	280,711	220,458	489,355	376,736	347,717	276,709	216,942	140,332	243,118	165,611	163,840	119,574
Contig N50	3032	2552	3143	2276	3221	2303	2867	2187	3618	2788	3288	2526	3050	2373
Median contig length	675	707	574	529	606	575	597	553	666	629	632	601	673	593
Mean mapping rates
Conspecific samples	91.50%	75.36%	95.53%	93.58%	94.88%	93.94%	95.49%	94.95%	92.98%	83.22%	92.52%	82.02%	94.96%	93.89%
Heterospecific samples	82.65%	69.54%	88.56%	85.44%	86.24%	85.99%	83.58%	83.14%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Transrate scores
Assembly score	0.23	0.35	0.25	0.36	0.29	0.42	0.26	0.37	0.21	0.31	0.21	0.29	0.20	0.29
Optimal assembly score	0.35	0.36	0.36	0.37	0.42	0.43	0.36	0.38	0.33	0.32	0.30	0.30	0.30	0.30

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