Table 1.

A summary of cDNA libraries made from various catfish tissues and ESTs sequenced from these libraries. * indicates previously reported libraries used for additional sequencing in this project.

Library	Species	Number of ESTs generated
Gill	I. punctatus	2630
Head kidney*	I. punctatus	2614
Intestine	I. punctatus	2418
Liver	I. punctatus	1067
Muscle	I. punctatus	546
Olfactory	I. punctatus	390
Ovary	I. punctatus	1810
Pituitary	I. punctatus	1723
Spleen*	I. punctatus	3163
Stomach	I. punctatus	1369
Testes	I. punctatus	1377
Trunk kidney	I. punctatus	1344
		Total = 20,451
Head kidney	I. furcatus	2683
Heart	I. furcatus	659
Intestine	I. furcatus	1431
Liver	I. furcatus	4003
Spleen	I. furcatus	1988
		Total = 10,764