Studies often focus on the behavior of animals in their natural environments and discuss the putative function of the behavior for the propagation and survival of the species.

Although the putative functions in Table 1are not generally associated with virulence, many genes, under the right circumstances, can facilitate infection or contribute to pathogenicity.

A major goal of the consortium is to have a putative function for every ORF in the TB genome.

Ancestral reconstruction techniques have been used to design proteins with putative ancient functions.

Table 1lists the number of cases in each arm in which an 'Increased' call was assigned and includes a brief description of putative functions of the gene products.

Still, it appears likely that Siah1a may play an important role in mGluR signaling in addition to any putative function regarding the proteasome pathway.

The putative function of this protein in the brain is still a mystery.

After the function update of the 2,294 CDSs, 1,306 gene products were assigned a putative function and 126 gene products were described by a phenotype.

In terms of function, ncRNAs with putative regulatory functions have been located to potential PROMPT regions.

Of particular interest is the large number of ORFs within both categories (39% in trophozoite and 61% in schizonts) with no putative functions assigned.