Analyses of expressed sequence tags from the maize foliar pathogen Cercospora zeae-maydis identify novel genes expressed during vegetative, infectious, and reproductive growth

Table 4 Putative photoreceptors and light-regulated genes found in EST libraries of Cercospora zeae-maydis

Cluster or singleton #	GenBank gi #¹	BLAST e value	Annotation²	No. of ESTs in libraries
				Sporulation	Vegetative
839	156057216	2e-99	Opsin	0	2
CBYB4938	121705009	3e-57	Cryptochrome/photolyase	0	1
3281	154291031	2e-80	Phototropin	0	2
217	39656354	0.0	Phytochrome	2	2
2277	5829297	6e-66	Bli-3	23	0
18	46137218	1e-11	Clock-controlled gene 6	14	35
404	32993638	0.0	Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (clock-controlled gene 7)	8	8
2878	121713003	4e-16	Clock-controlled gene 8	2	0

¹ gi = GenBank gene index number of most homologous sequence obtained by tBLASTx.
² Based on comparative analysis of similar sequences obtained by tBLASTx with a threshold of 1e-5.

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