Table 8.

Summary of microsatellite markers identification from the all catfish expressed short reads assembly

Number of contigs of sequences surveyed	526,099
Number of contigs containing microsatellites	49,883
Total number of microsatellites identified	57,379
Di-nucleotide repeats	31,657
Tri-nucleotide repeats	16,925
Tetra-nucleotide repeats	8,235
Penta-nucleotide repeats	506
Hexa-nucleotide repeats	56
Number of microsatellites with sufficient flanking sequences	39,516
Number of contigs containing microsatellites with sufficient flanking sequences	34,539