Table 1.

Pathways and categories of intron-containing genes studied in this article

Class of genes	Genes
Cytoskeleton	ACT1,TUB1, SAC6,COF1, GIM5, CIN2,ARP9,PFY1, TUB3,ARP2, YSC84, LSB3,MOB1, MOB2, DYN2(2)
RNA metabolism	LSM2, LSM7, MUD1,MTR2 (6AS), STO1,POP8,TAD3 (2), NMD2,NSP1,SMD2,DBP2,YRA1, TAN1, MPT5,YSF3
Chromosome segregation and meiosis	MEI4, HOP2, MND1, DMC1, HFM1, AMA1, SAE3, REC107,RFA2, SPO1, BUD25, ECM33, PCH2, MCM21, SPO22, RAD14, REC102, REC114, SRC1(2AS)
Metabolism	YBR220C,PMI40,GLC7,BIG1, EPT1, APE2, CPT1,GCR1, HNT1, HNT2,GPI15, VMA9(2), PHO85,SPT14, VMA10, SCS22, IMD4, VPS75, YOP1
Mitochondria	RIM1,ERV1, MRPL44, YML6, COX4, QCR9, QCR10, COX5B
Protein folding and degradation	UBC4, UBC5, UBC8,UBC9, UBC12, UBC13, RUB1,PRE3, MRK1, MMS2, DCN1

Underlined, essential genes; bold, intron overlapped with another ORF. If the gene contains more than one intron, the number of introns is written in parentheses and AS indicates alternatively spliced.