Table 1.

Number of reads, estimated number of genes and scaled number of mRNA molecules ($\widehat{\mathit{M}}$) per sampling point

DAA	Reads	Estimated number of genes			$\widehat{\mathit{M}}$
		In sample	Chao	Changjiang
10	1,864,796	24,358	30,451	36,544	1,870,376
20	2,065,216	26,346	32,181	38,016	2,071,181
40	1,781,071	25,533	31,581	37,629	1,786,961
60	2,306,600	23,987	29,433	34,878	2,312,002
Mean	2,004,421	25,056	30,912	36,767	2,010,130
S	234,086	1,083	1,219	1,405	233,944