Parasites & Vectors

Table 1 General distribution of reads in coding sequence contigs for the sialotranscriptomes of three Amblyomma ticks

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

	*Amblyomma cajennense*				*Amblyomma parvum*				*Amblyomma triste* *
Category	CDS^a	Reads^a	Reads/CDS	Reads^b	CDS^a	Reads^a	Reads/CDS	Reads^b	CDS^a	Reads^a	Reads/CDS	Reads^b
Secreted	1,015	16,480	16.2	24.4	493	22,796	46.2	21.7	1,861	76,193	40.9	17.2
Housekeeping	2,805	44,246	15.8	65.4	2,653	65,952	24.9	62.9	6,854	305,129	44.5	68.9
Unknown	338	3,245	9.6	4.8	272	10,739	39.5	10.2	1,071	26,373	24.6	6.0
Unknown secreted	424	3,509	8.3	5.2	359	5,141	14.3	4.9	1,345	33,418	24.8	7.5
Transposable Elements	16	38	2.4	0.1	19	189	9.9	0.2	97	1,405	14.5	0.3
Viral	6	159	26.5	0.2	-	-	-	-	10	193	19.3	0.04
Leishmania-related	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	45	22.5	0.01
Total	4,604	67,677			3,796	104,817			11,240	442,756

a. total number; b. percentage; *Combined data from the four libraries of A. triste: salivary glands from nymph ticks fed on guinea pig during first (NGP1) and second (NGP2) infestation; salivary glands from female ticks fed on dogs during first infestation (FD1) and second (FD2) infestation.

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