Table 2.

Turtle transcriptomic sequence datasets analyzed in this study

Species	Family	Ind	Tissue	454	Illu.	Contigs a	N50	ORF b	Ref. c
C. nigra	Testudinidae	5	Blood	yes	yes	80,693	685	10,929	(1), (2)
C. carbonaria	Testudinidae	1	Blood	no	yes	11,324	536	1,236	(1)
M. leprosa	Geoemydidae	1	Blood	no	yes	10,199	576	1,439	(1)
E. orbicularis	Emydidae	10	Blood	yes	yes	68,096	720	10,503	(3)
T. scripta	Emydidae	3	Blood, brain	yes	yes	27,235	667	3,383	(3), (4)
C. caretta	Cheloniidae	1	Blood	yes	no	31,135	509	5,142	(2)
P. hilarii	Chelidae	1	Blood	yes	no	45,060	563	8,066	(2)

^aNumber of contigs of length >200 bp.

^bNumber of ORF of length >100 codons.

^c(1): this study; (2) Chiari et al. [22]; (3) Gayral et al. [23]; (4) Tzika et al. [24].