Table 2

Numbers and clustering of ESTs among different V. squamosa libraries. n corresponds to the total number of ESTs sequenced per library. Contigs are ESTs represented multiple times while Singletons are ESTs present only once per library. Unigenes equal the total number of different ESTs in a library. Private EST's are sequences that occur only in that specific library. Gene diversity is the probability of drawing two distinct sequences from a library by chance.

Library

QE

WL_E

QL_E

WL_L

QL_L

WP

QP

MP

WA

QA

MA

Total

n

196

147

208

145

231

172

177

233

222

196

206

2133

Contigs

15

26

37

24

35

19

25

26

34

27

18

294

Singletons

151

68

94

94

61

108

83

170

158

116

112

760

Unigenes

166

94

131

118

96

127

108

196

192

143

130

1054

Private ESTs

114

37

50

53

33

65

46

135

120

82

88

823

Gene diversity

0.998

0.982

0.986

0.991

0.957

0.987

0.970

0.998

0.997

0.986

0.994

EST, expressed sequence tag.

Q, queen; W, worker; M, male; E, egg; L_E, early larval instars; L_L, late larval instars; P, pupa; A, adult

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