TABLE 1.
Distribution of Giardia intestinalis small RNA tags
| Genetic element | No. of identified tags (% of total) |
|---|---|
| Ribosomal RNAs (28S, 18S, 5.8S, and 5S) | 50 (12) |
| tRNAs | 244 (61) |
| Small nuclear RNAs | 4 (1) |
| Retroposon GilT | 33 (8) |
| Telomeric repeats | 3 (1) |
| ORFs and intergenic regions | 69 (17) |
| Total number of tags identifieda | 403 |
a
BLAST searches were performed at the Giardia Genome Database (www.mbl.edu/Giardia) and included contig consensus sequences as well as all sequence reads not included in the assembly. Over 600 tags could not be assigned.