Table 1. Representation of Eucarida species in the public databases (at 15/07/10).

Species	No of ESTs in database	BLASTn matches			tBLASTx matches
		krill 454	ESTs	% match	krill 454	ESTs	% match
Euphausia superba	3095	2177	2567	83	2560	2547	82
Fenneropenaeus chinensis	10511	556	1706	16	1759	3717	35
Penaeus monodon	35690	968	10464	29	3141	15400	43
Litopenaeus vannamei	162755	1412	24482	15	4893	63145	39

Number of species-specific ESTS and the number of krill ESTs that match a corresponding number of Eucarida ESTs.