Profiling the resting venom gland of the scorpion Tityus stigmurus through a transcriptomic survey

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Identification of high-abundance transcripts present in T. stigmurus venom glands

Groups	Number of clusters	Number of clones	Clones/clusters	% of total	Putative identification
1	8	147	18.38	27.22	Anionic peptide*
2	9	136	15.11	25.19	AMP- like*
3	10	48	4.80	8.89	alfa KTX-like*
4	3	25	8.33	4.63	beta KTX-like*
5	8	20	2.50	3.70	hypothetical secreted peptide*
6	7	8	1.14	1.48	Unknown Function¹
7	2	8	4.00	1.48	arginine kinase
8	6	7	1.25	1.30	Metalloprotease*
9	1	6	6.00	1.11	Hypotensin*
10	3	5	1.67	0.93	beta NaTX-like*
11	2	2	1.00	0.37	alfa NaTX-like*
12	1	2	2.00	0.37	cystein-rich peptide*

The (*) indicates detection of a putative signal peptide, predicted using the SignalP 3.0 program (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/). ¹ Signal peptides were detected in some clusters.

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