Table 1. Statistics of willow ESTs generated by the 454 GS-FLX platform.

	Female	Male	Total
No. of reads	629,683	571,945	1,201,628
Average read length (bp)	375.86	404.09	389.30
Total bases (bp)	236,675,409	231,114,644	467,790,053
No. of reads in contigs	542,527	498,129	1,040,656
No. of reads as singletons	72,474	60,235	132,709