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Table 2 The 101 unique toxin transcripts recovered by VTBuilder from reads sequenced from the venom gland of Bitis arietans (column 1) and the overall percentage of the toxin DNA that they make up within the transcriptome

From: VTBuilder: a tool for the assembly of multi isoform transcriptomes

Toxin type

% of toxin transcripts

# of unique transcripts

CTL

44.87

31

SVMP + DIS

22.99

26

SP

11.08

14

VEGF

8.13

5

SPI

6.18

9

SVMP Inhibitor

2.28

1

LAO

1.44

3

CYS

0.96

1

PLA2

0.79

3

5NUC

0.60

1

NGF

0.39

2

AP

0.14

1

HYA

0.06

1

DPP

0.06

2

PDE

0.04

1

  1. Combined these made up 33.71% of the expressed transcriptome (Figure 4A) but only make up 6.81% of the total number of unique sequences present.