Table 1.
Species and tissue or cell type | Relevant properties of tissue or cells | Name of library in NCBI and contributor(s) | Total number of ESTs per library (March 2006) | Number of ESTs matching genes in Arabidopsis (e < 10-7) | Number of contigs identified using CAP3 | Number of singletons identified using CAP3 | Unigenes (contigs plus singletons) |
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Zea mays | |||||||
Sperm | Male | Zea mays sperm cell cDNA library (S. McCormick) Engel et al.[64] | 5174 | 2457 | 384 | 781 | 1165 |
Egg | Female | Zea mays egg cell cDNA library (H. Yang and S. McCormick) Yang et al. [65] | 4085 | 1957 | 264 | 863 | 1127 |
Triticum aestivum | |||||||
Anther-meiotic | Male | Wheat meiotic anther cDNA library (O. Anderson) | 9139 | 6118 | 860 | 3058 | 3918 |
Ovary | Female | Ov (Genoplante) | 5311 | 3699 | 813 | 1295 | 2108 |
Brassica napus | |||||||
Microspores (from 3 to 4 mm buds) | Male | 65JKBNM0 (M. Malik and J. Krochko) | 6539 | 5325 | 781 | 1620 | 2401 |
Buds and young flowers | Heterogeneous (male, female and somatic) | ADIS-MPIZ 021 (B. Weisshaar) | 8747 | 6164 | 995 | 2665 | 3660 |