Table 3.

Summary of blast searches between 95,979 great tit contigs and other avian sequence databases

zebra finch database
	whole genome	cDNA	protein
contigs	93,221 (97%)	33,574 (35%)	29,830 (31%)
mean% similarity	90	95	90
mean coverage depth of contigs	12	17	17
unique hits	76,708	10,085	9,732
chicken database
	whole genome	cDNA	protein
contigs	64,262 (67%)	34,844 (36%)	30,423 (32%)
mean% similarity	89	90	85
mean coverage depth of contigs	14	17	17
unique hits	51,161	10,943	10,480

The number of unique sequences in the zebra finch/chicken database (genome, cDNA or protein) that matched contigs ("unique hits") are also shown. Genomic DNA hits were not classified as unique if they were located less than 100 bases from any other hit