Table 3

MPSS data, DNA content and predicted gene number for various organisms

Organism

MPSS Signatures per Cell Type

Total Signature Number

Average Signatures per Cell Type

Genome size

Predicted Gene Number

H. sapiens

13,510 – 44,634

181,415^a

29,285

3200 Mb

20,000–25,000^d

Arabidopsis thaliana

11,374 – 25,229

87,705^b

19,750

125 Mb

~30,000^e

A. fundyense

20,161 – 27,217

30,917

23,689

ca. 96,000 Mb^c

n/a

^a Data from Jongeneel et al. (2005) [29], filtered as described in Materials and Methods

^b Meyers et al. (2004) [24]

^c based on values for A. tamarense, LaJeunesse et al. (2005) [3]

^d International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium (2004) [52]

^e TIGR Arabidopsis genome annotation v5 [53].

Erdner and Anderson BMC Genomics 2006 7:88   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-7-88