Table 1

Distribution of 576 ESTs sequenced from S. c. edwardsii venom gland in toxin and toxin-like transcript, cellular protein, mitochondrial and hypothetical sequence clusters.

Transcripts category
Number of ESTs
Number of clusters
Redundancy (clones/cluster)
Representation over total clones (%)
Representation over matching clones (%)

Toxin
360
76
4.74
69.40
77
Cellular
107
106
1.04
20.65
23
Mitochondrial
9
9
1.00
1.73
-
Hypothetical
42
42
1.00
8.10
-

The variations observed among toxin isoforms in this library are not due to population level diversity as they are derived from the venom gland of a single snake

Pahari et al. BMC Molecular Biology 2007 8:115   doi:10.1186/1471-2199-8-115