Global transcriptional profiling of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense using Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing

Table 3 MPSS data, DNA content and predicted gene number for various organisms

Organism	MPSS Signatures per Cell Type	Total Signature Number	Average Signatures per Cell Type	Genome size	Predicted Gene Number
H. sapiens	13,510 – 44,634	181,415^a	29,285	3200 Mb	20,000–25,000^d
Arabidopsis thaliana	11,374 – 25,229	87,705^b	19,750	125 Mb	~30,000^e
A. fundyense	20,161 – 27,217	30,917	23,689	ca. 96,000 Mb^c	n/a

^a Data from Jongeneel et al. (2005) [29], filtered as described in Materials and Methods
^b Meyers et al. (2004) [24]
^c based on values for A. tamarense, LaJeunesse et al. (2005) [3]
^d International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium (2004) [52]
^e TIGR Arabidopsis genome annotation v5 [53].

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