Insights into shell deposition in the Antarctic bivalve Laternula elliptica: gene discovery in the mantle transcriptome using 454 pyrosequencing

Table 2 The ten most commonly expressed sequences (in order of abundance) in mantle tissue from 4 bivalves.

Laternula elliptica	Haliotis asinina	Pinctada maxima	Mytilus galloprovincialis
map kinase interacting serine threonine protein kinase.	-	shematrin	-
collagen pro-α chain	Elongation factor-1α	shematrin	-
enolase	cytochrome c oxidase 1	16 s ribosomal protein	Phospholipase
-	-	KRMP-8, glycine rich structural protein	-
-	ferritin	Elongation factor-1α	NADH dehydrogenase subunit 4
-	collagen	actin	-
ATP synthase sub-unit α	cytochrome c oxidase 1	KRMP-8, glycine rich structural protein	-
collagen type IV α6	-	N14 matrix protein	NADH dehydrogenase subunit 4
troponin T	-	-	NADH dehydrogenase subunit 4
-	-	paramyosin	NADH dehydrogenase subunit 4

The Laternula and Mytilus sequences arise from 454 data [Mytilus data: J. Gilbert, pers comm.], the Haliotis and Pinctada data are from EST library sequencing [56].

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