Table 3.

Functional classification of housekeeping transcripts originating from the salivary glands of Simulium guianense

Function	Number of ESTs	Contig	ESTs/Cluster
Protein synthesis	113	71	1.6
Energy metabolism	33	28	1.2
Signal transduction	18	14	1.3
Transporters and storage	5	5	1.0
Proteasome machinery	1	1	1.0
Protein modification machinery	6	6	1.0
Protein export machinery	4	4	1.0
Nuclear regulation	2	2	1.0
Nucleotide metabolism	2	2	1.0
Transcription machinery	2	2	1.0
Carbohydrate metabolism	3	3	1.0
Amino acid metabolism	1	1	1.0
Detoxification metabolism	3	3	1.0
Cytoskeletal	2	2	1.0
Unknown conserved	93	28	3.3
Total	288	172