Table 3.
Number of microsatellite repeats found in contigs produced from ten subsampled datasets of normalised and unnormalised zebra finch transcriptome libraries (means with standard errors estimated through jackknifing).
| Repeat type | Blood | Spleen | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normalised | Unnormalised | Normalised | Unnormalised | |
| Dinucleotide | 17.8 (0.9) | 7.8 (0.9) | 30.4 (1.3) | 10.8 (0.5) |
| Trinucleotide | 60.1 (1.6) | 39.1 (1.4) | 72.6 (1.5) | 52.5 (1.6) |
| Tetranucleotide | 6.5 (0.3) | 3.7 (0.3) | 12.5 (0.7) | 5.5 (0.5) |
| Pentanucleotide | 0.1 (0.1) | 0.2 (0.1) | 3.5 (0.5) | 0.2 (0.1) |
| Hexanucleotide | 0 (0) | 0.1 (0.1) | 1.0 (0.1) | 0.2 (0.1) |
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| Total | 84.5 (1.2) | 50.9 (2.0) | 120.0 (2.6) | 69.2 (1.5) |