Research Article

Elucidating the Evolutionary Relationships among Bos taurus Digestive Organs Using Unigene Expression Data

Table 2

Pairwise comparison of similarity among Bos taurus digestive and control body sites using the Jaccard index of similarity. Values closer to 1.0 denote a higher similarity in expressed genes between two body sites.

Digestive Body Sites
AbomasumIntestineOmasumReticulumRumen

Abomasum1.00000.34920.10970.23000.2814
Intestine0.34921.00000.07930.20370.2810
Omasum0.10970.07931.00000.13430.1308
Reticulum0.23000.20370.13431.00000.2641
Rumen0.28140.28100.13080.26411.0000

Control Body Sites
KidneyLiverOvarySpleen

Kidney1.00000.31700.40310.2074
Liver0.31701.00000.31700.1702
Ovary0.40310.31701.00000.2320
Spleen0.20740.17020.23201.0000