Assembly of 500,000 inter-specific catfish expressed sequence tags and large scale gene-associated marker development for whole genome association studies

Table 1 cDNA library information and sequencing summary

Library	Species	Nature of library	Organ, tissue, or cell line	Total sequences
CBFH	Blue catfish	Normalized	Stomach, muscle, olfactory tissue and trunk kidney	37,314
CBZC	Blue catfish	Normalized	Stomach, muscle, olfactory tissue and trunk kidney	30,902
CBNH	Blue catfish	Normalized	Head kidney, gill, intestine, spleen, skin and liver	9,323
CBZF	Blue catfish	Normalized	Head kidney, gill, intestine, spleen, skin and liver	51,172
Subtotal				128,711
CBCZ	Channel catfish	Non-normalized	Mixed leukocytes of parallel blood leukocytes	16,168
CBFA	Channel catfish	Normalized	Catfish whole fry library	63,602
CBNG	Channel catfish	Normalized	Kidney, gill, intestine, spleen, skin and liver	2,982
CBZB	Channel catfish	Normalized	Kidney, gill, intestine, spleen, skin and liver	57,772
CBNI	Channel catfish	Normalized	Stomach, muscle, olfactory tissue and trunk kidney	17,023
CBZA	Channel catfish	Normalized	Stomach, muscle, olfactory tissue and trunk kidney	61,320
CBPN	Channel catfish	Subtracted	Liver, pituitary, ovary and testis	62,058
CBPO	Channel catfish	Normalized	Peripheral blood leukocytes stimulated with LPS	28,685
Subtotal				309,610
NCBI	Blue catfish			10,764
NCBI	Channel catfish			44,767
Total				493,852

Library names were designated by the Joint Genome Institute. LPS, lipopolysaccharide.

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