Figure 2

Identification of introns. (A) Non strand-specific RNA-seq (data is from YPD media at 30°C) showing the expression level for gene Cpar2_601470. Although expression of the 3' UTR region is low, two potential introns were identified. The red arrows show the location of oligonucleotide primers designed to confirm the presence of the introns. (B) Intron validation by PCR. Pairs of oligonucleotide primers flanking the intronic region were used to amplify products from genomic DNA (D) or cDNA (R). Introns were confirmed in the 3' UTR of Cpar2_601470, the 5' UTRs of Cpar2_400980 and Cpar2_205880, and within the coding sequence of 5 other genes (details of expected sizes are shown in Additional file 8). The small bands in Cpar2_601830 and Cpar2_807560 are likely due to the presence of excess primers or to nonspecific amplification.