Transcriptome analysis of Loxosceles laeta (Araneae, Sicariidae) spider venomous gland using expressed sequence tags

Table 1 Identification of the high abundance transcripts present in L. laeta venom gland

Groups	Number of clusters	Number of clones	Clones/clusters	% of total	Putative identification
1	542	741	1.37	24.6	No Hit*
2	91	489	5.37	16.3	Sphingomyelinase D*
3	59	248	4.20	8.2	Metalloproteinase*
4	83	105	1.27	3.5	Unknown Function*
5	9	75	8.33	2.5	Troponin
6	4	55	13.75	1.8	Actin
7	14	46	3.29	1.5	Hsp*
8	7	43	6.14	1.4	Elongation Factor
9	7	41	5.86	1.4	Salivary protein*
10	3	38	12.67	1.3	5'-nucleotidase*
11	7	36	5.14	1.2	Myosin
12	5	26	5.20	0.9	Chitinase*
13	4	23	5.75	0.8	Tubulin
14	2	23	11.50	0.8	LIM protein
15	6	22	3.67	0.7	PDI*
16	2	18	9.00	0.6	Venom allergen III*
17	6	15	2.50	0.5	Lectin*
18	12	14	1.17	0.5	Serine Protease*
19	2	13	6.50	0.4	ATP-binding
20	9	12	1.33	0.4	Ubiquitin

The (*) designates the detection of a putative signal peptide, predicted by using SignalP 3.0 program [54].

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