Table 3.

Higher level SCOP annotation for the predicted genes from the adult Musca domestica transcriptome based on sequence homology to Drosophila melanogaster^§

General function	Detailed function	Superfamilies	Predicted genes
Metabolism	Amino acids metabolism /transport	6	17
	Carbohydrate metabolism /transport	11	94
	Coenzyme metabolism /transport	13	45
	Electron transfer	7	28
	Energy	23	45
	Lipid metabolism /transport	4	18
	Nitrogen metabolism /transport	1	2
	Nucleotide metabolism /transport	14	74
	Other enzymes	51	344
	Photosynthesis	1	2
	Polysaccharide metabolism /transport	2	19
	Redox	28	180
	Secondary metabolism	6	68
	Transferases	14	143
Regulation	DNA-binding	32	218
	Kinases/phosphatases	7	245
	Other regulatory function	5	12
	Receptor activity	2	5
	RNA binding, metabolism /transport	12	113
	Signal transduction	30	301
Information	Chromatin structure	4	4
	DNA replication/repair	15	141
	RNA processing	6	25
	Transcription	7	17
	Translation	44	77
Extra-cellular processes	Blood clotting	1	13
	Cell adhesion	18	101
	Immune response	4	22
	Toxins/defense	2	5
Intra-cellular processes	Cell cycle, Apoptosis	10	26
	Cell motility	11	38
	Ion metabolism /transport	13	173
	Phospholipid metabolism /transport	4	36
	Proteases	21	304
	Protein modification	15	105
	Transport	22	118
General	General	12	348
	Ion binding	1	6
	Ligand binding	1	4
	Protein interaction	19	178
	Small molecule binding	11	403
Other	Unknown function	26	75
	Viral proteins	1	4
NONA	not annotated	1	1963
	TOTAL	537	6159

^§SCOP Superfamily annotation for D. melanogaster (v. 66_539) http://supfam.cs.bris.ac.uk/SUPERFAMILY/cgi-bin/gen_list.cgi?genome=dd.