Table 1 Distribution of 576 ESTs sequenced from S. c. edwardsii venom gland in toxin and toxin-like transcript, cellular protein, mitochondrial and hypothetical sequence clusters.
Transcripts category | Number of ESTs | Number of clusters | Redundancy (clones/cluster) | Representation over total clones (%) | Representation over matching clones (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Toxin | 360 | 76 | 4.74 | 69.40 | 77 |
Cellular | 107 | 106 | 1.04 | 20.65 | 23 |
Mitochondrial | 9 | 9 | 1.00 | 1.73 | - |
Hypothetical | 42 | 42 | 1.00 | 8.10 | - |