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.