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very decreases as length of the gene increases. Vertical tracks in figures 5 RGFP966 and 5, comprised mostly of singletons, likely indicate regions of the genome that failed to assemble, Finally, figures 5 and 5 show the overall dis tributions of ortholog hit ratios for contigs and singletons. Overall, 1,413 of the 9,393 E. propertius unige nes having a hit to B. mori had ratio 0. 8, and 2,866 had ratio 0. 5. Combretastatin A-4 Of the 12,485 P. zelicaon unigenes with B. mori hits, 1,940 had ratio 0. 8 and 4,015 had ratio 0. 5. Other Lepidoptera and Insecta We also compared unigene sets to protein databases for Drosophila melanogaster, containing 21,783 sequences and Heliconius erato, containing 8,790 sequences. Drosophila melanogaster proteins represent a well anno tated insect transcriptome, and the H.
erato database rep resents protein predictions based on tissue specific Sanger EST data obtained from the wing discs of adults, While this tissue specific dataset is not as com plete as the D. melanogaster protein dataset, DBeQ comparison to the more related P. zelicaon and less closely related E. propertius reveals interesting differences. 5,688 E. propertius unigenes had BLASTX hits to H. erato proteins. 7,497 had hits to D. melano gaster proteins. 11,082 P. zelicaon unigenes hit H. erato proteins, a much larger percentage, and 9,689 hit D. melanogaster. Figure 6 shows the number of unigenes with hits to one or more of the three protein databases. Venn diagram areas are scaled to represent Erythropoietin percentages of the unigene sets. Although both species had a large number of hits to H.
erato, this database is comparatively small as indicated by Figure 6. DBeQ The bars in Figure 6 show the relative proportion of high coverage contigs, low coverage contigs, and singletons for each area in the Venn diagram. Unigenes that hit to all three databases tend to have high coverage, while those that only hit the most related species tend to have low coverage or are single tons. 7,266 E. propertius singletons and 10,462 contigs zelicaon cluster, 3 had a BLASTN hit to P. xuthus mito chondrial genes and 5,995 hit ribosomal RNA. We also identified 59 unigenes not present in the largest cluster that hit mitochondrial genes, and 1,275 that hit ribosomal RGFP966 RNA. All but a few ribosomal hits were to the 16S ribosomal RNA. Similar analysis of E. proper tius unigenes revealed 43 hits to P.
xuthus mitochondrial genes and 50 hits to ribosomal RNA, none of which occurred in the largest cluster. To validate clustering results, we used TBLASTX to search for five single copy genes from B. mori. CAD carbamoylphosphate synthase domain, PGD 6 phosphogluconate dehydroge nase, AATS alanyl tRNA synthetase, SNF sans fille, DBeQ and TPI triosephosphate isomerase, Because these genes are single copy, a correct clustering should identify unigenes orthologous to them as being related. PGD and SNF each had hits to a single contig in the E. propertius unigene set, neither of these contigs were clustered with any other unigenes. The TPI gene had a hit to a contig that also was clustered with one other single ton. The other genes, CAD and AATS, had no hits in the E. propertius unigene set. For P.
zelicaon, the PGD gene RGFP966 had hits to three contigs, these were clustered DBeQ together along with one other singleton. The TPI gene hit a single contig that also was clus tered with one other contig. The AATS gene hit three contigs representing two full clusters, The SNF and CAD genes had no hits to the P. zel icaon unigene set. To investigate the absence of CAD and AATS for E. propertius and CAD and SNF for P. zelicaon, we searched for evidence of these genes in the M. cinxia EST dataset, Of the 595,541 uncleaned M. cinxia ESTs, 35 hit SNF, 75 hit AATS, and 1 hit CAD. Thus, although these genes appear to be expressed in a lepidopteran larval transcriptome, they appear to be present at low levels in EST collections, particularly for CAD. Metatranscriptomic Contamination Because material was sampled from whole larvae, we expect some uni