Fig. 6.
Expression profiles of ESP genes in rats and golden hamsters. (A) Genomic locations of ESP single and mature sequences on chromosome 9 in rats (upper) and on scaffold00033 and scaffold01268 in golden hamsters (lower). Signal and mature sequences are shown in sky blue and magenta vertical lines, respectively, along with the names (e.g., “3” indicates RnESP3 and Rn-sig3; see supplementary table S3, Supplementary Material online). I and P indicate intact sequences and pseudogenes, respectively. (B) Expression profile of ESP genes in the ELG, HG, and SMG of male and female rats (left) and golden hamsters (right) determined by RT-PCR. (C) Results of RNA-seq analyses for the ELG and SMG of the male rat and the male golden hamster. Reconstructed ESP transcript models with the TPM values >10 are shown. All transcript models mapped to genomic regions encoding ESP genes are summarized in supplementary table S8, Supplementary Material online. No ESP transcripts were obtained for the golden hamster ELG. Mature and signal sequences are depicted in sky blue and magenta, respectively.