Table 1

List of the EST database of Nilaparvata lugens

Library
Tissue/sex/stage
Vector used
No. of clones
Average length (bp)
%"N"
No. of clusters

AA
Abdomen, female, 0–1 day
ZAP
609
589.7
0.014
435
AB
Abdomen, female, 0–1 day
ZAP
1027
601.9
0.011
667
AC
Abdomen, male, 0–1 day
ZAP
588
599.7
0.022
493
AD
Abdomen, male, 0–1 day
ZAP
967
594.9
0.102
726
EA
Egg, 0–1.5 day
pGEM
3726
652.0
0.051
2371
EB
Egg, 3–5 day
pGEM
2055
576.3
0.076
941
HA
Head, female, 0–1 day
ZAP
777
520.6
0.018
111
HT
Head-thorax, male, 0–1 day
ZAP
2555
673.9
0.070
1132
MA
Midgut, female, 0–5 day
pGEM
3594
637.5
0.051
1252
MB
Midgut, male, 0–5 day
pGEM
2095
606.4
0.117
847
NA
Whole nymph, 1st instar
pGEM
3269
633.8
0.096
1714
NB
Whole nymph, 4th instar
ZAP
3710
624.7
0.058
1749
OA
Ovary, 0–1 day
ZAP
967
511.5
0.119
689
OB
Ovary, 4–5 day
ZAP
822
601.9
0.028
329
OC
Ovary, 4–5 day
ZAP
2225
604.4
0.079
989
SG
Salivary glands, female, 0–5 day
pGEM
2383
640.8
0.083
723
TA
Testis, 0–1 day
ZAP
1525
575.9
0.045
895
TH
Thorax, 0–1 day
ZAP
4228
693.1
0.029
1657







Total


37122
626.7
0.065
10261

ZAP, lambda ZAP II (pBluescript) phage vector; pGEM, pGEM-t plasmid vector; %"N", percentage of ambiguous nucleotides. Ovary and testis includes the accessory glands of the reproductive organs. Clustering was performed using CLOBB [25]. ESTs are deposited in the DNA databases under accession numbers DB20956–DB858077 (37,122 entries).

Noda et al. BMC Genomics 2008 9:117   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-117