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Table 5 Differential expression analysis for 454 data: top 30 transcripts expressed in glowworm light organ tissue but not in non-light organ tissue

From: Comparative RNA seq analysis of the New Zealand glowworm Arachnocampa luminosa reveals bioluminescence-related genes

Contig number

Gene length (bp)

Total gene reads

Normalized expression values

RPKM

Putative identity from BLASTX search hits

13443

427

347

1444.3

1740.2

No significant similarity found

10414

304

64

374.2

450.8

luciferin 4-monooxygenase

2392

1330

156

208.5

251.2

heat shock protein 70

13448

565

65

204.5

246.4

sugar transporter sweet1-like isoform 2

13375

816

82

178.6

215.2

No significant similarity found

14967

142

10

125.2

150.8

No significant similarity found

94

215

15

124

149.4

No significant similarity found

860

68

4

104.5

126.0

No significant similarity found

4416

1031

54

93.1

112.2

No significant similarity found

10178

78

4

91.1

109.8

No significant similarity found

10298

119

6

89.6

108.0

hypothetical protein Sulku_2095

14957

504

25

88.2

106.2

No significant similarity found

161

142

7

87.6

105.6

No significant similarity found

17729

168

8

84.6

102.0

No significant similarity found

706

85

4

83.6

100.8

No significant similarity found

10061

152

7

81.8

98.6

troponin i

14955

181

8

78.6

94.6

No significant similarity found

2879

1600

70

77.8

93.7

protein maelstrom homolog

80

70

3

76.2

91.8

No significant similarity found

14930

118

5

75.3

90.7

No significant similarity found

15799

49

2

72.5

87.4

No significant similarity found

10252

74

3

72.1

86.8

No significant similarity found

7300

228

9

70.2

84.5

No significant similarity found

10131

104

4

68.4

82.4

No significant similarity found

1453

55

2

64.6

77.9

No significant similarity found

15071

83

3

64.2

77.4

No significant similarity found

14973

194

7

64.1

77.3

No significant similarity found

9

201

7

61.9

74.6

No significant similarity found

15207

173

6

61.6

74.3

No significant similarity found

788

117

4

60.8

73.2

No significant similarity found

  1. Transcripts areranked according to normalized expression values; read counts were scaled so that the median values were made equal. RPKM = reads per kilobase of exon model per million mapped reads