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Table 3 General characteristics of cDNA libraries from salivary glands of Amblyomma cajennense produced in different conditions

From: The sialotranscriptome of Amblyomma triste, Amblyomma parvum and Amblyomma cajennense ticks, uncovered by 454-based RNA-seq

Library

Tick life stage

Host

No. of sequences

Average size of sequencea

Number of Contigs

Total yield in MBb

LIBEST_019946c

Adult fed females

Rabbits

1,769

472

1,234

0.79

LIBEST_USP-RPd,e

Adult fed females

Horses

1,147

493

505

0.57

RNA-seq (454)f

Adult fed females

Rabbits

180,857

384

4,604

69.4

  1. asize in bases; bsize in mega (106) bases; cdescribed by Batista et al.[58]; dproduced by Anatriello et al. [96] and described herein; efor details see Additional file 4: AF4. fShown values were calculated considering the two Roche 454 libraries described herein (for details regarding contigs see Additional file 3: AF3).