Table 1.

Results of All BLAST Intron Comparisons


Species

Total number of analyzed intron pairs

Number of pairs with homology detected by BLAST

Number of pairs from homologous genes (discarded)

Number of pairs from same contig (discarded)

Final number of remaining intron pairs
Human 2.1 × 108 13,435 12,067 1250 118
Arabidopsis thaliana 1.1 × 1010 6971 6633 169 169
Drosophila melanogaster
7.8 × 108
4073
3625
381
67