Transcript Mapping and Genome Annotation of Ascidian mtDNA Using EST Data

Table 2.

Number of ESTs With poly(A) Stretches at the Ends of the Ciona Contigs and Stop Codon of the Protein-Coding Gene Located Immediately Before the poly(A) Stretch


Contig

Genes

No. poly(A) ESTs

Stop codon
Ci-1 CO1-Nc 16
Ci-12 ND3 1 TAA
ND3-E 9
Ci-8 ND4-Nc 2
ND4-Nc-F-Nc-ATP8 6 TA(A)
Ci-36 CO2-Cytb 7 TA(A)
CO2-Cytb-P-ND4L* 6 T(AA)
CO2-Cytb-P-ND4L* 12 TAG
CO2-Cytb-P-ND4L-H-Nc 1
CO2-Cytb-P-ND4L-H-Nc-R 1
CO2-Cytb-P-ND4L-H-Nc-R-Q-Nc-CO3-Nc 17
Ci-10 ND5 5 T(AA)
Ci-11 ND1-Nc 4
Ci-5
ATP6-ND2-Nc
2

  • tRNA genes are indicated by the amino acid transported. Noncoding regions are indicated as Nc. Parentheses indicate A bases belonging to the poly(A) tail. Asterisk indicates alternative polyadenylation sites at the stop codon of ND4L gene.

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