Table 1.

Statistical summary of the process of submission, QC, and features annotation in the MG-RAST web server of metagenomic sequences retrieved from tick gut microbiomes.

Stages	Statistical parameter	AVf	AVm	IPf	IPm	IOf	IOm
Upload	Base pair count (bp)	10 973 277	14 010 027	20 941 861	17 030 492	20 108 476	8 450 898
	Sequences count	42 258	27 582	37 667	35 544	37 136	33 789
	Sequence Length (bp)	260 ± 184	508 ± 81	556 ± 68	479 ± 114	541 ± 73	250 ± 173
	GC proportion (%)	43 ± 7	55 ± 6	31 ± 8	54 ± 8	36 ± 4	47 ± 7
Post QC	Base pair count (bp)	4 888 443	8 729 399	15 985 228	3 002 495	15 920 721	3 833 115
	Sequences count	15 089	18 303	31 826	7 316	32 659	12 786
	Sequence length (bp)	324 ± 198	477 ± 87	502 ± 73	410 ± 148	487 ± 75	300 ± 181
	GC proportion (%)	41 ± 9	54 ± 6	31 ± 8	47 ± 13	36 ± 4	44 ± 9
Annoted	Protein features	8 730	9 294	25 583	6 759	28 676	8 707
	rRNA features	310	37	345	68	275	82
	Bacteria domain (%)*	90.6	82.6	94.6	92.5	97.6	87.4

^*Proportion of features annotated as Bacteria domain, the rest corresponds to Eukaryote, Archaea, and Virus.