Table 3.

Differential Abundance of Transcripts and Diversity of Types of GRPs in Salivary Gland Libraries from females of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus SGFRm), Rhipicephalus sanguineus (SGFRs)and Amblyomma cajennense (SGFAc)

Representation of Transcripts Coding for GRPs
Library		N° of ESTs		Library	N° of ESTs		P value*
		Observed	Expected		Observed	Expected
SGFRm		57	59.620	SGFRs	47	45.380	P = 0.821
SGFRm		57	45.333	SGFAc	23	35.667	P = 0.006
SGFRs		47	34.421	SGFAc	23	35.579	P = 0.003
Representation of Transcripts Coding for GRPs
Library		N° clusters		Library	N° clusters		P value*
		Observed	Expected		Observed	Expected
SGFRm		33	27.312	SGFRs	16	22.688	P = 0.072
SGFRm		33	25.617	SGFAc	11	19.383	P = 0.015
SGFRs		16	14.130	SGFAc	11	12.870	P = 0.592
Representation of the Most Abundant Transcripts Coding for Specific Types of GRPs
Best match to NR protein database	Library	N° of ESTs		Library	N° of ESTs		P value
		Observed	Expected		Observed	Expected
gi|45479213|unknown Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides	SGFRm	21	17.678	SGFRs	10	13.322	P = 0.372
	SGFRm	21	17.217	SGFAc	10	13.783	P = 0.232
Acanthoscurrin	SGFRs	6	3,301	SGFAc	1	3,699	P = 0.424
64P	SGFRs	13	9.432	SGFAc	1	4.568	P = 0.002
Silk-like proteins from true spiders	SGFRm	23	22,749	SGFRs	17	17,251	P = 0.936
	SGFRm	23	17,247	SGFAc	8	13,753	P = 0.056
	SGFRs	17	12,185	SGFAc	8	12,815	P = 0.396

*Chi-square test for representation of the glycine-rich proteins distributed in the three cDNA libraries.