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Table 3 General properties of the newly-identified exons/ASVs

From: Comparative genomics of grass EST libraries reveals previously uncharacterized splicing events in crop plants

 

Rice

Maize

Sorghum

Average number of supported EST traces (for cassette exons)

4.60

2.76

4.70

Average number of supported EST traces (for retained introns)

8.17

1.90

4.60

Percentage of the identified ASVs with EST evidence from ≥ 2 subject species

29.84

14.13

26.06

Average/median length of novel cassette exons (bp)

104.64/87

102.36/81

98.76/84

Average/median length of novel retained introns (bp)

105.40/81

108.72/92

112.19/93

Average/median length of the Ensembl-annotated introns that contain the novel cassette exons (bp)

1057.90/648

1665.04/556.5

932.09/547

Average/median length of pure introns (bp)

381.09/163

530.57/139

441.51/143

Significance test*

P < 10−6; P < 10−15

P < 10−7; P < 10−15

P < 10−15; P < 10−15

  1. *Differences between the average/median lengths of previously-annotated introns that contain the newly-identified cassette events and those of pure introns were examined using the two-tailed t-test and Wilcoxon rank-sum test, respectively.
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BMC Plant Biology

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