Figure 5

Conservation between Picea mariana unique sequences and cDNA sequences from other conifer species: (A) BLASTN searches were performed against NCBI’s est_others repository and those with hits with a minimum e-value of 1e - 05 were organized into Picea , Pinus and Other to examine similarity by genus. 18% of the sequences (493) had no hits within Picea and are therefore likely to be unique to Picea mariana. (B) The same BLASTN searches were divided by species and organized into categories by score: > 200, > 1,000, and > 1,500. The greatest number of hits was observed with Picea glauca and Picea sitchensis. These two species also had the greatest number of nearly identical hits (scores > 1500).