Table 1.

Summary statistics for avian samples hybridised to the whole genome chicken microarray

Field	Chicken	Duck	Kookaburra	Tawny frogmouth	Magpie goose	Starling
Maximum net intensity	65,245	62,490	64,000	64,259	65,129	64,993
Maximum normalised net intensity	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000
Median net intensity	98	136	90	56	72	55
Median normalised net intensity	15	22	14	9	11	8
Spots above 1 standard deviation* (max 43200)	33,759	32,483	32,659	31,154	28,748	31,390
Percentage of spots above 1 standard deviation*	78	75	76	72	67	73

*One standard deviation above the background intensity.