Comparison between Normalised and Unnormalised 454-Sequencing Libraries for Small-Scale RNA-Seq Studies

Table 3

Number of microsatellite repeats found in contigs produced from ten subsampled datasets of normalised and unnormalised zebra finch transcriptome libraries (means with standard errors estimated through jackknifing).

Repeat type	Blood		Spleen
	Normalised	Unnormalised	Normalised	Unnormalised
Dinucleotide	17.8 (0.9)	7.8 (0.9)	30.4 (1.3)	10.8 (0.5)
Trinucleotide	60.1 (1.6)	39.1 (1.4)	72.6 (1.5)	52.5 (1.6)
Tetranucleotide	6.5 (0.3)	3.7 (0.3)	12.5 (0.7)	5.5 (0.5)
Pentanucleotide	0.1 (0.1)	0.2 (0.1)	3.5 (0.5)	0.2 (0.1)
Hexanucleotide	0 (0)	0.1 (0.1)	1.0 (0.1)	0.2 (0.1)
Total	84.5 (1.2)	50.9 (2.0)	120.0 (2.6)	69.2 (1.5)