Table 3. Gene Ontology (GO) assignment to putative transcripts.

	Common to vascular plants	Absent in vascular plants
No. of putative transcripts	9,907	300
No. of corresponding genes in the nr data set	6,773	244
No. of genes with GO assigned	2,946	116
Metabolism, %	77.7	68.0
Transport, %	13.2	19.8
Signal transduction, %	2.7	4.7
Cell organization and biogenesis, %	1.3	1.7
Cell cycle, %	1.1	0.9
Photosynthesis, %	1.0	0.9
Response to external stimulus, %	0.8	1.1
Response to stress, %	0.5	0.3
Cell growth and/or maintenance, %	0.4	1.7
Cell death, %	0.4	0.0
Others, %	0.8	0.9

nr, nonredundant