Table S2. List of most significantly differentially regulated genes selected from ANNs for the determination of sex in dolphins from 4 geographic locations.

(Blastx cutoff value 1.0E-3).

EST ncbi Acc.no. / Seq. Description / Seq. Length / #Hits / min. eValue / mean Similarity / #GOs
Contig23 (DV468056, DV468606) / beta-2-microglobulin precursor / 615 / 20 / 3.113E-50 / 0.8995 / 5
Contig8 (DT661121, DT661130) / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 757 / 20 / 9.245E-25 / 0.5075 / 0
Contig9 (DT661146, DV468349) / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 655 / 20 / 6.793E-41 / 0.8995 / 0
Contig16 (DV467822, DV468030, DT661250) / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 1021 / 20 / 1.295E-54 / 0.414 / 0
Contig17 (DV467848, DV468052, DT660342, DT660214) / eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 1 / 1128 / 20 / 2.87E-147 / 0.99 / 8
Contig13 (DT661332, DV468062) / eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 epsilon 1 / 801 / 20 / 5.033E-72 / 0.963 / 11
Contig18 (DV467901, DV468515) / h+ lysosomal v0 subunit e1 / 798 / 20 / 3.158E-42 / 0.924 / 9
Contig21 (DV467972, DV468548) / heat shock factor binding protein 1 / 536 / 20 / 3.485E-21 / 0.958 / 6
Contig27 (DV468285, DV468404) / histone / 751 / 20 / 2.354E-75 / 0.9865 / 10
Contig30 (DV468523, DV468543) / line-1 reverse transcriptase homolog / 622 / 20 / 5.259E-15 / 0.56 / 3
Contig15 (DV467784, DT661404) / nucleophosmin 1 isoform 1 / 628 / 20 / 7.359E-79 / 0.9915 / 2
Contig19 (DV467909, DT661152) / prothymosin alpha / 820 / 2 / 4.944E-14 / 0.79 / 0
Contig12 (DT661197, DT661410) / ribosomal protein l27 / 492 / 20 / 6.929E-65 / 0.987 / 4
Contig3 (DT660346, DV467881, DV468107) / ribosomal protein s3a / 800 / 20 / 6.84E-138 / 0.985 / 8
Contig22 (DV467994, DT660290) / selenoprotein k / 703 / 20 / 3.828E-19 / 0.934 / 2
Contig5 (DT660891, DT661019, DV468123, DT661205) / thymosin beta 4 / 622 / 19 / 1.228E-09 / 0.9347368 / 10
Contig14 (DT661382, DV468102, DT660273, DV468009, DV468341, DV467843, DV468605, DT660962, DV468076, DT660994, DT661003) / cytochrome c oxidase subunit iii / 1570 / 20 / 2.25E-122 / 0.938 / 4
Contig20 (DV467950, DT660370, DV467982, DV468000) / cytochrome c oxidase subunit i / 1154 / 20 / 1.76E-107 / 0.96 / 9
Contig25 (DV468145, DV467924, DV467772) / cytochrome c oxidase subunit i / 812 / 20 / 2E-116 / 0.935 / 9
Contig4 (DT660358, DV468456) / cytochrome c oxidase subunit ii / 577 / 20 / 3.64E-76 / 0.959 / 7
DT660143 / beta globin / 558 / 20 / 4.289E-47 / 0.9205 / 6
DT660146 / heavy polypeptide 1 / 534 / 20 / 8.524E-44 / 0.9825 / 8
DT660169 / c-c chemokine receptor-like 2 / 458 / 20 / 2.73E-29 / 0.7425 / 4
DT660171 / ribosomal protein l36a / 219 / 20 / 2.73E-16 / 1 / 4
DT660178 / elongation factor 1-alpha / 711 / 20 / 7.493E-55 / 0.9335 / 5
DT660181 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 370 / 20 / 3.296E-38 / 0.8355 / 0
DT660202 / s100 calcium binding protein a8 / 385 / 12 / 1.121E-06 / 0.875 / 6
DT660206 / acyl- synthetase long-chain family member 5 / 769 / 20 / 3.082E-84 / 0.9075 / 9
DT660222 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 390 / 20 / 2.795E-50 / 0.8285 / 0
DT660226 / proteoglycan 1 precursor-like / 778 / 20 / 5.425E-60 / 0.748 / 10
DT660231 / slam family member 7 / 597 / 20 / 6.878E-72 / 0.576 / 1
DT660247 / hypothetical protein PC101070.00.0 / 622 / 1 / 2.832E-06 / 0.81 / 0
DT660265 / nop16 nucleolar protein homolog / 687 / 20 / 7.96E-83 / 0.813 / 1
DT660268 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 301 / 20 / 4.443E-12 / 0.6075 / 0
DT660276 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 463 / 20 / 2.895E-18 / 0.8695 / 0
DT660327 / wd repeat domain 12 / 173 / 20 / 5.35E-25 / 0.9345 / 3
DT660336 / hCG2038477 [Homo sapiens] / 411 / 1 / 2.938E-07 / 0.64 / 0
DT660347 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 507 / 20 / 1.088E-16 / 0.3095 / 0
DT660351 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 507 / 20 / 1.039E-35 / 0.479 / 0
DT660352 / wd repeat domain 26 / 808 / 20 / 6.734E-40 / 0.98 / 1
DT660353 / ribosomal protein l12 / 567 / 20 / 7.795E-44 / 0.9865 / 7
DT660379 / transposase / 824 / 20 / 3.676E-25 / 0.63 / 0
DT660794 / cytochrome c oxidase subunit viib / 466 / 20 / 5.781E-35 / 0.855 / 4
DT660808 / polymerase ii (dna directed) polypeptide h / 544 / 20 / 7.915E-40 / 0.9635 / 6
DT660825 / nadh dehydrogenase 1 alpha 2 / 416 / 20 / 1.94E-43 / 0.8825 / 5
DT660836 / beta lysosomal-like / 719 / 1 / 8.84E-11 / 0.57 / 0
DT660847 / breast cancer early isoform cra_g / 707 / 20 / 4.91E-115 / 0.9335 / 18
DT660851 / dead (asp-glu-ala-asp) box polypeptide 39 / 789 / 20 / 5.67E-129 / 0.9665 / 7
DT660857 / nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase / 725 / 20 / 3.81E-102 / 0.9755 / 13
DT660858 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 515 / 20 / 1.535E-14 / 0.6315 / 0
DT660860 / proteasome ( macropain) activator subunit 2 (pa28 beta) / 756 / 20 / 4.18E-118 / 0.952 / 5
DT660862 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 374 / 13 / 3.783E-10 / 0.7438462 / 10
DT660863 / guanylate binding protein 3 / 732 / 20 / 2E-114 / 0.9375 / 4
DT660880 / ribosomal protein l32 / 494 / 20 / 9.668E-67 / 0.974 / 5
DT660902 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 718 / 20 / 7.785E-08 / 0.344 / 0
DT660913 / p40 / 776 / 20 / 1.932E-25 / 0.5185 / 3
DT660931 / 14 kd / 510 / 1 / 8.802E-05 / 0.47 / 0
DT660972 / nkg2a / 672 / 20 / 2.128E-77 / 0.748 / 3
DT660985 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 261 / 20 / 6.62E-31 / 0.824 / 0
DT660987 / cytochrome c oxidase subunit vib polypeptide 1 / 457 / 20 / 3.792E-47 / 0.965 / 4
DT660988 / mitochondrial ribosomal protein l22 / 456 / 20 / 2.238E-23 / 0.81 / 4
DT661002 / peroxiredoxin 1 / 541 / 20 / 8.468E-87 / 0.9645 / 7
DT661013 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 659 / 20 / 3.287E-51 / 0.8735 / 0
DT661036 / microfibrillar-associated protein 1 / 248 / 20 / 1.897E-14 / 0.999 / 2
DT661042 / mitochondrial ribosomal protein s33 / 595 / 20 / 1.833E-41 / 0.9045 / 3
DT661064 / orf2 / 393 / 19 / 6.026E-11 / 0.6415789 / 2
DT661081 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 636 / 20 / 5.647E-13 / 0.2565 / 13
DT661112 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 715 / 20 / 3.148E-28 / 0.506 / 0
DT661142 / poly (adp-ribose) glycohydrolase / 762 / 20 / 8.76E-108 / 0.986 / 6
DT661165 / signal sequence alpha / 718 / 20 / 9.16E-117 / 0.984 / 7
DT661199 / yme1-like 1 ( cerevisiae) / 679 / 20 / 9.451E-73 / 0.9895 / 8
DT661260 / transposase [Lipotes vexillifer] / 609 / 2 / 3.389E-09 / 0.63 / 0
DT661289 / signal peptidase complex subunit 1 homolog ( cerevisiae) / 531 / 20 / 3.137E-54 / 0.9705 / 6
DT661361 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 784 / 20 / 1.04E-79 / 0.4285 / 0
DT661378 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 737 / 20 / 2.862E-83 / 0.383 / 0
DT661388 / beta-2-microglobulin precursor / 627 / 20 / 3.222E-50 / 0.8995 / 5
DT661394 / leucyl-trna synthetase / 804 / 20 / 4.494E-28 / 0.979 / 4
DT661395 / bub3 budding uninhibited by benzimidazoles 3 homolog / 473 / 20 / 1.549E-56 / 0.9695 / 5
DT661401 / atp h+ mitochondrial f0 subunit isoform 2 / 380 / 20 / 5.072E-07 / 0.9285 / 11
DV467742 / son dna binding isoform f / 380 / 20 / 2.482E-54 / 0.999 / 3
DV467751 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 406 / 20 / 2.604E-07 / 0.539 / 0
DV467752 / cytochrome b / 765 / 20 / 7.74E-104 / 0.96 / 6
DV467753 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 681 / 20 / 3.932E-26 / 0.57 / 0
DV467758 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 429 / 20 / 3.682E-58 / 0.88 / 0
DV467780 / nhp2 non-histone chromosome protein 2-like 1 ( cerevisiae) / 526 / 20 / 4.976E-49 / 0.9845 / 8
DV467805 / atp h+ mitochondrial f1 epsilon subunit / 322 / 17 / 9.929E-11 / 0.9 / 7
DV467813 / chromobox homolog 3 (hp1 gamma drosophila) / 269 / 20 / 7.284E-22 / 0.8605 / 20
DV467833 / nadh dehydrogenase 1 alpha subcomplex 4 / 257 / 20 / 5.657E-22 / 0.9215 / 5
DV467837 / splicing factor subunit 1 / 683 / 20 / 1.992E-70 / 1 / 7
DV467845 / ribosomal p0 / 564 / 20 / 7.841E-81 / 0.99 / 6
DV467863 / septin 7 / 774 / 20 / 5.09E-135 / 0.9875 / 10
DV467871 / protein kinase c inhibitor aswz variant 5 / 537 / 20 / 9.246E-62 / 0.974 / 6
DV467928 / calmodulin / 699 / 20 / 1.581E-41 / 0.99 / 13
DV467942 / tetratricopeptide repeat domain 13 / 675 / 20 / 1.466E-17 / 1 / 1
DV467957 / isoform cra_a / 662 / 20 / 1.325E-54 / 0.622 / 3
DV467962 / beta-2-microglobulin precursor / 649 / 20 / 1.862E-51 / 0.907 / 5
DV467963 / p40 / 788 / 20 / 4.217E-60 / 0.642 / 3
DV467978 / thymosin beta 4 / 614 / 20 / 5.859E-09 / 0.961 / 10
DV467985 / p150 / 662 / 20 / 3.473E-16 / 0.7235 / 11
DV467999 / ribosomal protein l14 / 636 / 20 / 2.651E-47 / 0.976 / 3
DV468014 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 541 / 20 / 2.013E-39 / 0.6725 / 0
DV468034 / cyclin i / 398 / 20 / 5.643E-14 / 0.9265 / 2
DV468041 / cell division cycle 42 / 785 / 20 / 6.495E-69 / 0.9965 / 22
DV468044 / ribosomal protein l9 / 425 / 20 / 7.466E-67 / 0.983 / 10
DV468051 / isoform cra_b / 557 / 20 / 1.767E-53 / 0.85 / 2
DV468053 / cornichon homolog 4 / 497 / 20 / 8.035E-61 / 0.712 / 4
DV468075 / eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 epsilon 1 / 140 / 9 / 0.0003033 / 0.7755556 / 8
DV468085 / h2a histone member v / 638 / 20 / 4.988E-54 / 0.9995 / 5
DV468098 / nadh dehydrogenase subunit 1 / 873 / 20 / 2.36E-105 / 0.9495 / 4
DV468101 / guanine nucleotide exchange factor p532 / 416 / 19 / 6.518E-07 / 0.9936842 / 4
DV468104 / mediator complex subunit 4 / 259 / 20 / 8.676E-31 / 0.885 / 9
DV468115 / anaphase promoting complex subunit 13 / 748 / 20 / 1.026E-36 / 0.917 / 4
DV468152 / regulator of g-protein signalling 1 / 383 / 20 / 5.36E-33 / 0.872 / 8
DV468171 / nuclear receptor binding set domain protein 1 / 323 / 20 / 3.638E-21 / 0.938 / 14
DV468180 / imap family member 7 / 391 / 20 / 1.591E-37 / 0.9015 / 1
DV468184 / ribosomal protein s25 / 455 / 20 / 9.085E-41 / 0.9915 / 5
DV468187 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 621 / 20 / 5.614E-63 / 0.8675 / 0
DV468206 / ribosomal protein s15a / 258 / 20 / 1.339E-31 / 0.9695 / 5
DV468217 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 413 / 20 / 4.38E-11 / 0.7275 / 0
DV468232 / p40 / 511 / 20 / 4.06E-26 / 0.7625 / 2
DV468239 / translocated promoter region (to activated met oncogene) / 595 / 20 / 5.151E-78 / 0.6235 / 8
DV468247 / nascent polypeptide-associated complex subunit alpha / 746 / 20 / 4.64E-98 / 0.9675 / 8
DV468268 / malate dehydrogenase nad / 283 / 20 / 8.745E-31 / 0.998 / 11
DV468297 / fucosyltransferase 8 / 564 / 20 / 1.378E-93 / 0.975 / 12
DV468298 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 359 / 20 / 2.172E-34 / 0.7715 / 0
DV468323 / c-type lectin-like protein / 553 / 20 / 2.428E-47 / 0.732 / 4
DV468336 / light chain smooth muscle and non-muscle / 421 / 20 / 1.81E-20 / 0.9795 / 7
DV468348 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 609 / 12 / 5.193E-10 / 0.5625 / 0
DV468360 / eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 1 isoform 1 / 524 / 20 / 1.745E-22 / 0.98 / 5
DV468382 / dynein light chain roadblock-type 1 / 530 / 20 / 1.53E-45 / 0.951 / 7
DV468405 / light chain non-sarcomeric / 668 / 20 / 2.453E-86 / 0.9775 / 6
DV468406 / orf2 / 110 / 8 / 7.444E-06 / 0.82 / 3
DV468414 / casp8 and fadd-like apoptosis regulator precursor (cellular flice-like inhibitory protein) (c-flip) (caspase-eight-related protein) (caspase-like apoptosis regulatory protein) (mach-related inducer of toxicity) ( iso / 687 / 20 / 3.871E-37 / 0.86 / 4
DV468423 / centrin 3 / 625 / 20 / 1.753E-32 / 0.9365 / 5
DV468443 / ribosomal protein l23 / 505 / 20 / 1.708E-69 / 0.9755 / 5
DV468470 / p40 / 731 / 20 / 1.074E-43 / 0.671 / 3
DV468484 / ribosomal protein s11 / 429 / 20 / 7.01E-25 / 0.9895 / 6
DV468486 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 679 / 20 / 5.593E-53 / 0.6495 / 0
DV468492 / ribosomal protein s26 / 451 / 20 / 2.248E-39 / 0.996 / 5
DV468530 / ribosomal protein l38 / 328 / 20 / 1.017E-15 / 0.968 / 5
DV468569 / eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 subunit k / 709 / 20 / 1.832E-45 / 0.954 / 7
DV468572 / endonuclease reverse transcriptase / 562 / 20 / 3.656E-06 / 0.7 / 18
DV468607 / transmembrane protein 184c / 743 / 20 / 4.267E-11 / 0.6875 / 2
DV468616 / alpha 1b / 630 / 20 / 3.699E-78 / 0.93 / 7
DV468626 / subfamily member 14 / 596 / 20 / 9.767E-27 / 0.777 / 9
DV799543 / toll-like receptor 7 / 434 / 20 / 5.372E-37 / 0.429 / 13
DV799549 / t cell receptor alpha chain / 279 / 10 / 0.0002321 / 0.74 / 0
DV799550 / signal transducer and activator of transcription 6 / 295 / 15 / 1.773E-44 / 0.8273333 / 12
DV799557 / aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator / 424 / 20 / 5.482E-56 / 0.56 / 5
DV799558 / toll-like receptor 4 / 283 / 20 / 4.396E-29 / 0.55 / 1
DV799561 / toll-like receptor 2 / 245 / 20 / 2.567E-19 / 0.6885 / 8
DV799563 / protein kinase beta / 280 / 20 / 1.705E-31 / 1 / 23
DV799566 / interleukin 17a / 324 / 20 / 2.043E-40 / 0.812 / 8
DV799568 / interleukin 13 / 279 / 20 / 4.21E-22 / 0.906 / 9
DV799571 / cytochrome family subfamily polypeptide 1 / 338 / 20 / 2.54E-43 / 0.943 / 8
DV799573 / granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor / 388 / 17 / 7.214E-08 / 0.8817647 / 3
DV799577 / interleukin 2 / 287 / 20 / 5.12E-23 / 0.838 / 10
DV799583 / interferon gamma / 501 / 20 / 8.353E-37 / 0.935 / 19
DV799584 / interleukin-1 beta / 801 / 20 / 3.94E-109 / 0.8465 / 11
DV799590 / interleukin 1 alpha / 798 / 20 / 8.34E-144 / 0.8695 / 7
EG329066 / heat shock protein 70 / 523 / 20 / 1.116E-58 / 0.6495 / 17

ESTs selected from ANNs were assembled into contigs using CAP3 analysis. The resulting contigs and ESTs were then blasted against the (nr) non-redundant protein sequences database (nr) at NCBIusing Blast2go.