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Table 1 Number of genes in genomes, gene families, phylogenetic trees, and trees with GOslim annotation

From: The gain and loss of genes during 600 million years of vertebrate evolution

 

Homo sapiens

Rattus norvegicus

Mus musculus

Gallus gallus

Xenopus tropicalis

Danio rerio

Tetraodon nigroviridis

Genome

22,218

 

21,952

 

24,461

 

17,709

 

24,405

 

22,877

 

28,005

 

Gene families

14,054

(0.63)

14,155

(0.64)

14,813

(0.61)

9,875

(0.56)

13,336

(0.55)

14,597

(0.64)

12,373

(0.44)

Phylogenetic trees

13,080

(0.59)

12,537

(0.57)

13,325

(0.54)

9,292

(0.52)

11,747

(0.48)

13,785

(0.60)

11,660

(0.42)

Phylogenetic trees with GO annotation

12,470

(0.56)

11,919

(0.54)

12,669

(0.52)

8,806

(0.50)

11,049

(0.45)

13,244

(0.58)

11,097

(0.40)

  1. The fraction of the proteome analyzed at a certain step in the procedure is in parentheses (see Materials and methods for details).