Discovery and characterization of 91 novel transcripts expressed in cattle placenta

BMC Genomics

Table 4 Lineage specificity and expression features of 91 cattle NTs

Lineage specificity	Predicted ORF (>100 bp)	No. of NTs	Expression^a	Evidence for transcript splicing^b
Cetartiodactyla-specific transcripts^c	No	7	7	3
	Yes	16	14	15
Novel transcripts^d	No	20	19	6
	Yes	48	46	18

^a Gene expression validated by microarray analysis.
^b Splice-site analysis was conducted using est2genome. Some of the NTs had missing exons due to gaps in the sequence scaffolds, or due to alignment reaching the end of a scaffold.
^c BLASTN hits with E ≤ 10^-05 to cetartiodactyl EST database.
^d Sequences that have BLASTN hits with E > 10^-05 and TBLASTX hits with E > 10^-10

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