Table 1.

Functional classification of CDSs of unfed and fed A. sculptum ticks.

	SG-Unfed			SG-Fed (72 h)
Functional class	Number of CDSs	Number of reads	Relative abundance of reads*(%)	Number of CDSs	Number of reads	Relative abundance of reads*(%)
Cytoskeletal	301	1,108,899	3.79	304	907,896	2.23
Detoxification	85	58,478	0.20	92	126,600	0.31
Extracellular matrix/cell adhesion	291	2,025,509	6.93	302	3,084,348	7.58
Immunity	111	105,175	0.36	121	78,672	0.19
Amino acid metabolism	43	61,283	0.21	45	81,064	0.20
Carbohydrate metabolism	131	258,736	0.88	132	364,731	0.90
Energy metabolism	82	290,754	0.99	85	638,711	1.57
Intermediary metabolism	16	18,384	0.06	16	33,194	0.08
Lipid metabolism	183	258,154	0.88	196	305,605	0.75
Nucleotide metabolism	58	94,988	0.32	62	52,976	0.13
Nuclear export	32	310,812	1.06	32	119,450	0.29
Nuclear regulation	205	545,375	1.86	205	366,541	0.90
Protein export machinery	303	1,069,385	3.66	305	884,552	2.17
Protein modification machinery	192	434,173	1.48	197	1,061,107	2.61
Proteasome	176	819,051	2.80	176	505,338	1.24
Protein synthesis	287	8,053,986	27.54	288	4,133,884	10.16
Signal transduction	807	4,422,649	8.28	814	1,532,993	3.76
Storage	18	99,099	0.34	19	97,785	0.24
Transcription factor	131	406,243	1.39	132	222,886	0.55
Transcription machinery	425	2,686,898	9.19	426	1,426,038	3.50
Transporters and channels	381	1,226,355	4.19	397	793,366	1.95
Unknown	680	1,097,518	3.75	769	1,469,774	3.61
Unknown, conserved	1011	2,097,204	7.17	1024	3,759,621	9.24
Putative secreted	2314	3,202,168	10.95	2592	14,865,642	36.53
Transposable elements	544	314,820	1.08	567	961,273	2.36
Viral products	37	179,294	0.61	39	2,818,989	6.93
Total	8844	29,245,390		9337	40,693,036

^*Relative abundance of reads: number of reads within each functional class in one specific sialotranscriptome (unfed ticks or ticks fed for 72 h) / total number of reads in the same sialotranscriptome.