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Table 7 Comparison of Mesostigma genes related to cell structure functions with the genome or ESTs of Chlamydomonas and three embryophytes. The average identity of pair-wise comparisons of Mesostigma expressed genes coding for the indicated cellular functions with the ESTs or genomes of the given organisms are presented.

From: EST analysis of the scaly green flagellate Mesostigma viride (Streptophyta): Implications for the evolution of green plants (Viridiplantae)

Function1

Chlamydomonas

Physcomitrella

Arabidopsis

Oryza

Cell structure (201)

0.629

0.641

0.627

0.618

   Cytoskeleton (7)

0.751

0.729

0.0.731

0.731

   Protein folding/Chaperones (21)

0.685

0.605

0.580

0.581

   Cytosolic protein degradation (22)

0.682

0.733

0.722

0.703

   Vesicular transport (22)

0.633

0.701

0.680

0.673

   Regulation (18)

0.585

0.599

0.548

0.544

   DNA structure, replication, cell cycle (21)

0.580

0.616

0.655

0.625

   Transcription (16)

0.684

0.675

0.647

0.623

   RNA metabolism (23)

0.599

0.619

0.637

0.637

  1. 1 Numbers in brackets indicate the number of genes in this category.