Table 4.

Repartitions of Intron Phases in AtRHs, CeRHs, and DmRHs

	Phase	Verified introns			Predicted introns			Mean value
0	1	2	0	1	2	0	1	2
AtRHs	%	67,5	12,5	20	71	13,5	15,5	69 {56}	13 {23}	18 {21}
	intron nb	144	27	42	106	20	23
CeRHs	%	40,5	36,5	23	41,5	31,5	27	41 {47}	34 {29}	25 {24}
	intron nb	41	37	23	37	28	24
DmRHs	%	32	36	32	48	24	28	37 {46}	32 {31}	31 {24}
	intron nb	20	22	20	12	6	7

Numbers in brackets are values representing the complete sets of Arabidopsis thaliana,Caenorhabditis elegans, and Drosophila melanogaster genes (Deutsch and Long 1998).