BMC Genomics

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Genic regions of a large salamander genome contain long introns and novel genes

Jeramiah J Smith1,6,7, Srikrishna Putta1, Wei Zhu2, Gerald M Pao2, Inder M Verma2, Tony Hunter2, Susan V Bryant3,4, David M Gardiner3,4, Timothy T Harkins5 and S Randal Voss1*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Biology and Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA

2 The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

3 Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

4 The Developmental Biology Center, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

5 Roche Applied Science, Indianapolis, IN 46250, USA

6 University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

7 Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA 98101, USA

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:19 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-19

Published: 13 January 2009

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Additional file 1:

Comparative data for exons and introns. A table containing exon alignment statistics and corresponding intron lengths for salamander, human, chicken, and frog.

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Additional file 2:

Self-self sequence alignments. Plots showing representative self-self sequence alignments for the 4 longest introns that were isolated from A. mexicanum.

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Alignment of all salamander introns. A plot showing the self-alignment of concatenated intronic sequence sampled from A. mexicanum.

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miRNAs predicted for axolotl and human. A table containing positional and statistical information for miRNAs predicted for axolotl and human.

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snoRNAs predicted for axolotl and human. A table containing positional and statistical information for snoRNAs predicted for axolotl and human.

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Human-axolotl 1: 1 orthologs. A table containing identities and alignment summary statistics for human-axolotl 1: 1 orthologs.

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Human-axolotl many: many paralogs. A table containing identities and alignment summary statistics for human-axolotl many: many paralogs predicted for both human and axolotl.

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Human-axolotl many: 1 paralogs. A table containing identities and alignment summary statistics for human-axolotl many: 1 paralogs predicted for both human and axolotl.

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Additional file 9:

Human-axolotl 1: many paralogs. A table containing identities and alignment summary statistics for human-axolotl 1: many paralogs predicted for both human and axolotl.

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