Table 2. Count of chimeric transcripts validated across plant genomes.

	Ah	Bv	At	Gm	Sl	Zm	Ah-specific	Caryo-specific
# chimera	406	351	83	131	139	44	110	132
# multi-gene	4	2	0	1	12	10	0	1
# pairs	404	349	83	140	130	40	110	131
Unique	402	349	83	140	127	34	109	131
Duplicated	2	0	0	0	3	6	1	2
# overlapping	30	6	25	11	11	7	4	15
Convergent	28	5	25	11	10	2	4	13
Divergent	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
Co-oriented	0	1	0	0	1	4	0	0
# contained	0	1	1	5	0	5	0	0
Convergent	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Divergent	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Co-oriented	0	1	1	5	0	5	0	0
# non-overlapping	374	342	57	124	119	28	106	116
Convergent	302	276	29	94	67	3	78	102
Divergent	6	9	4	1	3	5	2	1
Co-oriented	66	57	24	29	49	20	26	13