Table 1

Major categories of biological functions
Biological Function
 ESTs
 Transcripts
 Transcripts
 No. of ESTs
 ESTs per Transcript
unfed/2 d fed
 6 d fed
 unfed/2 d fed
 6 d fed
 unfed/2 d fed
 6 d fed
cytoskeletal
 17
 17
 10
 7
 10
 7
 1
 1
extracellular matrix
 11
 6
 6
 1
 7
 4
 1.17
 4
immunity
 35
 7
 4
 5
 10
 25
 2.50
 5.00
lipid binding
 4
 4
 3
 1
 3
 1
 1.00
 1.00
metabolism, amino acid
 36
 24
 5
 21
 6
 30
 1.20
 1.43
metabolism, carbohydrate
 12
 9
 3
 7
 3
 9
 1.00
 1.29
metabolism, energy
 163
 70
 39
 44
 118
 45
 3.03
 1.02
metabolism, heme
 5
 2
 2
 0
 5
 0
 2.50
 0.00
metabolism, lipid
 17
 14
 3
 12
 3
 14
 1.00
 1.17
metabolism, nucleic/nucleotide
 1
 1
 0
 1
 0
 1
 0.00
 1.00
nuclear regulation
 20
 11
 6
 8
 9
 11
 1.50
 1.38
proline rich protein
 5
 5
 4
 1
 4
 1
 1.00
 1.00
peptidase inhibitor
 10
 9
 3
 6
 3
 7
 1.00
 1.17
proteasome machinery
 7
 7
 3
 4
 3
 4
 1.00
 1.00
protein export machinery
 6
 6
 1
 5
 1
 5
 1.00
 1.00
protein modification machinery
 47
 35
 15
 21
 17
 30
 1.13
 1.43
protein synthesis machinery
 655
 99
 68
 49
 393
 262
 5.78
 5.35
secreted
 112
 46
 29
 22
 44
 68
 1.52
 3.09
signal transduction
 14
 13
 8
 6
 8
 6
 1.00
 1.00
transcription factor
 8
 7
 4
 4
 4
 4
 1.00
 1.00
transcription machinery
 10
 10
 8
 2
 8
 2
 1.00
 1.00
transporter
 20
 15
 5
 11
 8
 12
 1.60
 1.09
transposable element
 1
 1
 0
 1
 0
 1
 0.00
 1.00
Uncharacterized conserved function
 24
 21
 14
 9
 15
 9
 1.07
 1.00
Unknown
 439
 396
 212
 192
 226
 213
 1.07
 1.11
Total
 1679
 835
 455
 440
 908
 771
 1.40
 1.58

Anderson et al. BMC Genomics 2008 9:552   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-552