In most cases involving alternative splice sites, the region that was different between alternative transcripts had small numbers of supporting reads, typically fewer than ten reads per splice junction.
Moreover, protein association networks are naïve in terms of alternative transcripts of genes and protein isoforms.
The former were used to differentiate 445 alternative transcripts of 215 genes.
We identified 27 alternative transcripts of chicken TERT (chTERT).
Only the first listed alternative transcript of each gene was considered.
For this, we determined the relationships between CD36 alternative transcripts, which can reflect tissue-specific CD36 regulation, and measures of FA metabolism and insulin resistance.
The only difference between the coding sequence of the alternative transcripts and that of the canonical one is that the former lacks the first 100 residues of the latter.
A similar analysis comparing the set of genes involved in autosomal recessive or dominant diseases shows no significant differences in the protein or gene length or in the number of alternative transcripts between these two sets of genes.
Regulation of the alternative transcripts and functions of these sense and antisense alternative transcripts in M. grisea warrant more detailed analyses.
Interestingly, GmWRKY56 had four alternative transcripts, and one of the transcripts lacked the WRKY domain.
