Table 1.

Some properties of the sequenced thylacine and numbat samples

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[i] aNumber of reads produced by the Roche GS-FLX.

[ii] bAverage number of bases per read.

[iii] cPercentage of reads found to come from the mitochondrial genome.

[iv] dAverage number of reads containing a mitochondrial position.

[v] eEstimated percentage of the reads coming from the nuclear genome (see text).

[vi] fEstimated ratio of nuclear to mitochondrial reads.

[vii] gEstimated percentage of the reads that are contaminant human DNA.