Table 2.

Distribution of Micro-Exon Lengths


Genome

2-5 bp

6-10 bp

11-15 bp

16-20 bp

21-25 bp

All micro-exons 2-25 bp

Exon skipping
C. elegans 0 2 1 3 4 10 3
D. melanogaster 1 10 6 5 12 34 4
A. thaliana 7 19 13 28 74 141 1
Human
5
59
77
90
194
425
60

[i] A total of 610 internal micro-exons were identified using the spliced alignment correction procedure and with sim4 alone.