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Table 3 Detailed analysis of lethal piggyBac insertion sites

From: Large-scale insertional mutagenesis of a coleopteran stored grain pest, the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, identifies embryonic lethal mutations and enhancer traps

location number %
Intron 185 61
CDS* 42 14
< 500 bp** 27 9
500 bp - 2500 bp** 24 8
distant (> 2500 bp)** 27 9
all localized 305 100
seq or blast problem 54  
not sequenced 62  
all lethal 421  
  1. *exons excluding UTRs
  2. **distance to next gene
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