Figure 7 of Simpanya, Mol Vis 2008; 14:2413-2427.


Figure 7. Alternate splicing of the guinea pig Decorin gene. A: Predicted guinea pig Decorin (Dcn) gene structure from guinea pig “rest of the eye” Decorin ESTs. B: ESTs aligned to guinea pig genome (scaffold_9) and guinea pig mRNA from GenBank for Dcn generated from NEIBank ESTs. Dcn gene shows a minor alternative first exon (alternative transcription start site; a black asterisk shows two cDNAs which contain an alternative exon with a potential protein coding open reading frame) that is also seen in other species [45]. Note: arrows show introns in the direction of sequence reads.