Table 1.
Summary of the de novo assembly of clean reads. NAA: the Yangtze finless porpoise; NAS: the East Asian finless porpoise.
| Parameters | NAA | NAS | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of assembled transcripts | 105,813 | 114,057 | 165,547 |
| Number of unigenes | 68,073 | 73,449 | 103,077 |
| Mean unigene length (bp) | 735 | 740 | 685 |
| Maximum unigene length (bp) | 19,040 | 12,579 | 17,179 |
| Minimum unigene length (bp) | 201 | 201 | 201 |
| N50 (unigenes) (bp) | 1389 | 1447 | 1227 |
| N90 (unigenes) (bp) | 270 | 269 | 260 |
N50/N90: the length of unigenes for which the cumulative size is not shorter than 50% or 90% of the total size of all unigenes, when all unigenes are sorted from longest to shortest.