Maruyama et al. BMC Genomics 2010, 11:363 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/363 Page 4 of 17 Table 2: Description of matches with glycine-rich proteins present in the Arachnida protein database for transcripts from A. cajennense, R. sanguineus and R. microplus Accession number of Best Match Size (amino acid) % Glycine of Best match Library % Glycine in respective transcript* E-value of Match gi 116642505 179 34,63 Best Match to Arachnida Database cement-like antigen [H. longicornis] cement-like antigen [H. longicornis] NPL-2 [I. pacificus] putative cement protein [I. scapularis] putative cement protein RIM36 [R. appendiculatus] salivary gland-associated protein 64P [R. appendiculatus] Unknown [R.haemaphysaloides] gi 125597020 gi 51011404 gi 50363174 gi 21885262 gi 20069012 gi 45479213 217 78 119 334 154 506 38,7 38,46 50,42 24,55 29,22 25,29 acanthoscurrin 1 precursor [A. gomesiana] flagelliform silk protein [A. trifasciata] gi 27524417 156 62,17 gi 13561982 1.002 56,78 SGFAc SGFRs SGFRm SGFRm SGFRm SGFRm SGFRm SGFRm SGFRm SGFRm SGFRm SGFAc SGFRm SGFAc SGFRs SGFAc SGFRs SGFRs SGFRs SGFRs SGFRs SGFRs SGFRm SGFRm SGFRm SGFRm SGFRm SGFRm SGFRm SGFAc SGFRs SGFAc SGFRm Transcript name (Number of ESTs) Ac147 (1) Rs345 (1) Rm62 (1) Rm115 (2) Rm 519 (1) Rm61 (3) Rm265 (1) Rm71 (1) Rm470 (1) Rm234 (1) Rm388 (1) Ac52 (2) Rm77 (1) Ac109 (1) Rs12 (13) Ac9 (10) Rs17 (5) Rs19 (1) Rs20 (1) Rs156 (1) Rs402 (1) Rs428 (1) Rm29 (11) Rm70 (2) Rm30 (1) Rm31 (1) Rm67 (3) Rm85 (2) Rm479 (1) Ac354 (1) Rs26 (6) Ac233 (1) Rm259 (1) 28,81 21,78 21,11 22,91 23,37 32,2 22,22 41,32 31,79 21,35 20,43 20,57 25,82 20 30,43 24,8 22,05 20,31 21,1 30,37 25,77 30,72 36,94 31,19 30,51 26,08 20,38 11,34 23,76 42,85 31,95 30,47 22,22 9E-005 5E-009 5E-009 1E-011 3E-007 1E-020 1E-009 1E-017 1E-006 5E-007 8E-024 2E-009 4E-012 1E-025 2E-028 1E-149 7E-062 3E-082 1E-020 2E-028 2E-028 3E-060 2E-024 2E-020 3E-022 3E-074 3E-025 4E-010 3E-014 2E-019 3E-005 1E-005