Identifying new sex-linked genes through BAC sequencing in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia

BMC Genomics

Table 2 Comparison of BAC and RNA-seq data

	Total number	BAC-located genes matching RNA-seq contigs	BAC-located genes matching X/Y-inferred RNA-seq contigs	BAC-located genes matching X-hemizygous-inferred RNA-seq contigs	Sources of RNA-seq data
X-linked BAC-located gene	52	44	12	-	M2012
		36	5	2	BC2011
		31	13	5	CF2011
		46	19	5	All 3 combined
Y-linked BAC-located gene	11	7	3	-	M2012
		6	1	1	BC2011
		6	1	3^a	CF2011
		8	3	1	All 3 combined
All BAC-located genes	63	54	22	6	All 3 combined

All BAC-located genes are included except the six probe genes for which both X and Y copies were already available. M2012: Muyle et al. 2012 (ref. [8]), BC2011: Bergero, Charlesworth 2011 (ref. [6]), CF2011: Chibalina, Filatov 2011 (ref. [7])
^aAmong those 3, two genes were found to be X-hemizygous in [7], and XY in [6, 8]. In the combined data (see details in Methods), we considered these genes to be XY

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