Figure 2

Domination of the C. adamanteus venom-gland transcriptome by toxin transcripts. The 123 unique toxin sequences were clustered into 78 groups with less than 1% nucleotide divergence for estimation of abundances. (A) The vast majority of the extremely highly expressed genes were toxins. The inset shows a magnification of the top 200 transcripts. (B) Expression levels of individual toxin clusters are shown with toxin classes coded by color. The toxin clusters are in the same order as in Table 3.