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Table 3 The size of transcriptome of eukaryotes

Species name	UniGene count	Alternative splicing	UniGene results	TGI results	Other sources	Transcriptome size
Homo sapiens	82,718	4	330,872	328,301	326,552 [17]	328,575
Mus musculus	56,365	4	225,460	210,249		217,855
Rattus norvegicus	40,563	4	162,252	76,570		119,411
Bos taurus	33,285	4	133,140	90,392		111,766
Sus scrofa	42,652	4	170,608	110,744		140,676
Gallus gallus	28,917	3	86,751	70,379	85,486 [31]	80,872
Xeneopus laevis	30,638	2	61,276	56,494		58,885
Xenopus tropicalis	34,428	2	68,856	69,590		69,223
Danio rerio	37,236	2	74,472	91,901		83,187
Oncorhynchus mykiss	24,527	2	49,054	40,320		44,687
Salmo salar	29,291	2	58,582	53,602		56,092
Ciona intestinalis	24,757	2	49,514	49,016		49,265
Branchiostoma floridae	13,294	2	26,588		24,020 [32]	25,304
Strongylo. Purpuratus	16,101	1.5	24,152		21,290 [33]	22,721
Aedes aegypti	17,279	1.5	25,919	25,627		25,773
Drosophila melanogaster	15,090	1.5	22,635	36,335		29,485
Lxodes scapularis	14,084	1.5	21,126	20,932		21,029
Caenorhabditis elegans	17,736	1.5	26,604	27,118		26,861
Schistosoma mansoni	9,909	1.5	14,863	19,291		17,077
Hydra magnipapillata	9,156	1.5	13,734	15,510		14,622
Zea mays	51,520	2	103,040	112,156		106,598
Triticum aestivum	32,260	2.5	80,650	93,508		87,079
Oryza sativa	34,913	2.5	87,283	82,830		85,057
Vitis vinifera	18,266	2	36,532	34,154		35,343
C. reinhardtii	8,162	2	16,324	15,761		16,043
S. pombe				5,206		5,206

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