. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 8.

Published in final edited form as: Mar Biotechnol (NY). 2009 Feb 10;11(5):650–668. doi: 10.1007/s10126-009-9181-6

Table 3.

Number and percentage of ESTs that differed among sampling times from 10 functional categories, and the number and percentage of those that originated from C. gigas or C. virginica EST libraries

Functional category	Number	No. from C. gigas	No. from C. virginica
Molecular chaperones	10 (9.0%)	8 (80%)	2 (20%)
Protein degradation	4 (3.6%)	3 (75%)	1 (25%)
Growth/reproduction	3 (2.7%)	3 (100%)	0 (0%)
Antioxidant/detoxification	2 (1.8%)	2 (100%)	0 (0%)
Lipid metabolism	5 (4.5%)	5 (100%)	0 (0%)
Cellular immunity	5 (4.5%)	5 (100%)	0 (0%)
Transcription/Translation	5 (4.5%)	1 (20%)	4 (80%)
Cytoskeletal organization	7 (6.3%)	7 (100%)	0 (0%)
Other processes	10 (9.0%)	8 (80%)	2 (20%)
No match in Genbank	59 (53.6%)	47 (80%)	12 (20%)
Total	110 (100.0%)	50 (81%)	21 (19%)