A genomic survey of the fish parasite Spironucleus salmonicida indicates genomic plasticity among diplomonads and significant lateral gene transfer in eukaryote genome evolution

Table 1 Summary of genes detected in the S. salmonicida genome.

	EST	GSS	contigs	published	TOTAL
Cellular processes	26	46	1	1	74
Cell communication	6	1			7
Cell growth and death	6	14			20
Cell motility	1	6			7
Development		1			1
unclassified	13	24	1	1	39
Environmental information processing	34	53	3		92
Ligand-receptor interaction	2	2			4
Membrane transport	1	5	2		8
Signal transduction	28	44	1		73
unclassified	3	4			7
Genetic information processing	126	58		5	189
Folding, sorting and degradation	30	16		2	47
Replication and repair	9	13			22
Transcription		11			11
Translation	82	13		1	96
unclassified	5	5		2	12
Metabolism	99	110	6	21	236
Amino acid metabolism	17	16	1	4	38
Carbohydrate metabolism	28	29	1	9	67
Energy metabolism	18	12		5	35
Glycan biosynthesis and metabolism		4	1		5
Lipid metabolism	5	8		1	14
Metabolism of cofactors and vitamins	6		1		7
Metabolism of other amino acids	1	1			2
Nucleotide metabolism	19	38	2	1	60
unclassified	4	2		1	7
Conserved hypothetical protein	189	528	15		732
Hypothetical protein			13		13
Ribosomal RNA			2		2
tRNA		20			20
Total	473	817	40	27	1357

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