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Table 2 Comparison of the size and organism of IGR from organisms used in this study

From: Analysis of the spatial and temporal arrangement of transcripts over intergenic regions in the human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Organism

 

IGR count

Ratio of IGR count2

Median size of IGR (bp)

Ratio of median size2

Significant difference3

 

% AT1

A

B

C

A

B

C

A

B

C

A

B

C

AvB

AvC

BvC

Babesia bovis

58.2

1124

1990

1032

1.1

1.9

1.0

543

352

175

3.1

2.0

1.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Crytosporidium hominis

68.3

328

631

404

0.8

1.6

1.0

640

494

203

3.2

2.4

1.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Crytosporidium parvum

70

994

1666

972

1.0

1.7

1.0

634

460

175

3.6

2.6

1.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Dictyostelium discoideum

77.6

3312

6571

3313

1.0

2.0

1.0

825

602

241

3.4

2.5

1.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Neospora caninum

45.2

1694

1965

1695

1.0

1.2

1.0

3603

3899

2172

1.7

1.8

1.0

No

Yes

Yes

Plasmodium falciparum

80.6

1405

2494

1409

1.0

1.8

1.0

1938

1385

677

2.9

2.0

1.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Plasmodium knowlesi

62.5

1320

2225

1330

1.0

1.7

1.0

2162

1592

736

2.9

2.2

1.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Plasmodium vivax

57.7

982

1668

944

1.0

1.8

1.0

1956

1434

643

3.0

2.2

1.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Plasmodium yoelli

77.4

693

2679

1338

0.5

2.0

1.0

1192

578

582

2.0

1.0

1.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

61.7

1424

2726

1498

1.0

1.8

1.0

485

391

238

2.0

1.6

1.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Theileria annulata

67.5

869

1856

857

1.0

2.2

1.0

439

277

125

3.5

2.2

1.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Toxoplasma gondii

47.7

1134

1878

1121

1.0

1.7

1.0

2576

2437

1623

1.6

1.5

1.0

No

Yes

Yes

Theilera parva

65.9

886

2052

862

1.0

2.4

1.0

376

256

154

2.4

1.7

1.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

  1. 1AT content of the whole genome. 2 In all ratios, the value for type C IGR is taken as 1. 3 ANOVA test with significant difference (p < 0.05) between different IGR determined using Dunn’s multiple comparison post-test.