Figure 3.

Annotated GO terms and protein domains in the A. mexicanum EST libraries. (a) Gene Ontology electronic annotation in the category 'biological process' of contigs from A. mexicanum. The largest proportion of annotated contigs was assigned a 'cellular process' (87%). Of those, five large groups of cellular processes emerged, with 'cell cycle/proliferation' (13%), 'intracellular signaling' and 'intracellular transport' (8% and 15%), 'metabolism' (17%), 'protein metabolism/modification' (18%) and 'RNA metabolism' (13%). (b) Domains associated with cellular processes identified in the A. mexicanum contig sequence dataset. The largest fraction of contigs was associated with a domain function in 'intracellular transport', followed by 'RNA-binding and metabolism' and 'DNA-binding and transcriptional control'.