Transcript Diversity and Effective Population Size Across 75 Metazoans

166 transcriptomes from 75 metazoans were analyzed to investigate the relationship between transcript diversity and effective population size. Kai Mi authored this dataset, which was last updated on March 19, 2026. The analysis supports the hypothesis that transcript diversity is largely deleterious and declines with increasing effective population size.

Use Cases

• Testing the error hypothesis of transcript diversity based on effective population size proxies
• Correlating alternative transcription initiation site usage with population size metrics
• Analyzing the relationship between alternative splicing and species' effective population size
• Investigating the impact of alternative polyadenylation on transcript diversity across metazoans

Strengths

• Dataset includes analysis of 166 transcriptomes across 75 metazoan species
• Data is stored in an XLSX file format, facilitating structured analysis

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Analysis of transcriptomic data from 75 metazoans

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 17:21:18; freshness should be verified