Does anyone know (or knows a reference) why the percentage of contigs with a blastx hit from a de novo transcriptome is quite low (around 40 - 50%)?

See for example additional file 7 in Riesgo et al. 2012 for some stats about percentage of contigs with a blast hit. Riesgo, A., S. C. Andrade, P. Sharma, M. Novo, A. Perez-Porro, V. Vahtera, V....

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