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Low GC multicellular oganism? - in exonic regions (May/17/2006 )

I need to find a multicellular organism that has <40% GC in it's exons (in total). Anyone know of any that would fit this? So far I've found Apis mellifera, but need a few more (~37% for 10K+ genes).

Thanks.

-Kraft-

malaria...

-perneseblue-

Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Yeast)
Arabidopsis thaliana (Plant)
Plasmodium falciparum (Protozoan Parasite) it's the one that causes malaria by the way...

-Property of Yulia-

Dictyostelium discoideum - 22.4% GC - whao! Beat that! Now I understand why my old uni mate used to moan about how hard it was to PCR from this thing - that's amazing. It is single-celled however.

http://dictybase.org/Dicty_Info/genome_statistics.html

Just read this if it makes any difference

"Dictyostelium amoebae grow as separate, independent cells but interact to form multicellular structures when challenged by adverse conditions such as starvation. Up to 100,000 cells signal each other by releasing the chemoattractant cAMP and aggregate together by chemotaxis to form a mound that is surrounded by an extracellular matrix."

http://dictybase.org/tutorial/about_dictyostelium.htm

Furthermore, I've seen this exact question being asked a couple of other times in other posts. Search the archives section and you may find more organisms.

-killerkoz17-