Table 1 454 read and assembly features

Raw short sequence number

322,504

307,622

Number after filtering

287,429

272,490

Mean read length (bp)

352

356

Number of singletons

85,070

87,110

Number of assembled reads

145,588

130,897

Assembled transcriptome (Mbp)

10.35

9.52

Reads/bp

9.8

10.2

Number of unigenes

8,892

8,656

Number of transcripts (including alternative transcripts)

11,231

10,773

Transcript mean length (bp)

922

883

Transcript median length (bp)

693

685

Transcript N50 length (bp)

1,036

991

Mean exon count per transcript

1.54

1.49

Mean exon* length (bp)

604

605

Median exon length (bp)

500

495