Composition of Crested Duck bone marrow cDNAs
Total sequenced cDNAs 2128 %
No insert, poor sequence read, insufficient BLASTn alignment 234
No match in Genbank 202
Mitochondrial DNA, rRNA 165 9.8
ESTs representing Hemoglobins (total) 611 36.1
ESTs representing other proteins 916 54.1
The twenty most frequent transcripts in Crested Duck bone marrow
Gene Counts %
Alpha A hemoglobin subunit (HBA2) 385 22.75
Leukocyte cell-derived chemotaxin 2 (LECT2) 171 10.11
Alpha D hemoglobin subunit (HBA1) 163 9.63
Beta defensin (DEFB) 76 4.49
Beta A hemoglobin subunit (HBB) 63 3.72
Cytochrome oxidase subunit I (MT-CO1) 41 2.42
Immunoglobulin J chain (IGJ) 39 2.30
Ubiquitin C (UBC) 22 1.30
Beta-defensin 3 (DEFB3) 20 1.18
ATPase subunit 6, and cytochrome c oxidase subunit III (MT-CO3) 18 1.06
mRNA for hypothetical proteins 18 1.06
Cytochrome C oxidase subunit II (MT-CO2) 17 1.00
Predicted: hypothetical loci mRNA 13 0.77
Beta-defensin 1 (DEFB1) 12 0.71
Heat shock protein 90 alpha (HSP90A) 9 0.53
Predicted: similar to cysteine proteinase inhibitor 8 0.47
Predicted: similar to transglutaminase 3 (TGM3) 8 0.47
Lymphocyte antigen 86 (LY86) 7 0.41
H5 histone gene 7 0.41
BAC clone from chromosome z 7 0.41
Percentage of the total   65.2