Table 9.
The expression of S. ratti contigs with and without significant alignment to S. stercoralis L1- or iL3- specific or – biased contigs.
| S. stercoralis contig expression 1 | BLAST alignments 2 | Expression 3 | p 4 |
| L1-biased | 114 alignments | iL3-up (1.23) | 0.001 |
| 874 no alignment | L1-up (1.09) | ||
| iL3-biased | 133 alignments | iL3-up (1.21) | 0.01 |
| 855 no alignment | iL3-up (1.03) | ||
| L1-specific | 349 alignments | iL3-up (1.22) | 0.05 |
| 639 no alignment | iL3-up (1.13) | ||
| iL3-specific | 254 alignments | iL3-up (1.21) | 1.0 |
| 734 no alignment | iL3-up (1.12) |
1Mitreva pers. comm. [17].
2Number of S. ratti contigs with or without a significant BLAST alignment to the S. stercoralis contigs in the respective categories.
3The direction of the difference in expression (i.e. L1- or iL3-up) and, shown in parentheses, the mean ratio of expression.
4The significance of the difference of the mean levels of expression for the ESTs with and without significant BLAST alignments.