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Table 1 Living fossil (LF) vertebrate species and radiated (R) vertebrate species analyzed in this study, with genome and proteome information

From: Evidence that DNA repair genes, a family of tumor suppressor genes, are associated with evolution rate and size of genomes

Species

Genome size (Mb)

Protein number

Genome projects

Mammals—LF

 L1. Orycteropus afer

4566

25,544

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/annotation_euk/

 L2. Ornithorhynchus anatinus

1924

24,786

[22, 73]

 L3. Monodelphis domestica

3598

49,112

[74]

 L4. Elephantulus edwardii

4066

25,209

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/annotation_euk/

 L5. Ailuropoda melanoleuca

2364

36,506

[75, 76]

 L6. Phascolarctos cinereus

3398

46,908

[77]

 L7. Carlito syrichta

3454

33,081

[78]

Mammals—R

 R1. Myotis brandtii

2107

40,808

[79]

 R2. Pteropus alecto

1986

39,227

[80]

 R3. Rousettus aegyptiacus

1941

48,803

[81]

 R4. Myotis davidii

2060

33,106

[80]

 R5. Hipposideros armiger

2237

45,831

[82]

 R6. Myotis lucifugus

2035

43,106

[83]

 R7. Pteropus vampyrus

2198

43,628

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/annotation_euk/

 R8. Miniopterus natalensis

1803

29,787

[84]

 R9. Eptesicus fuscus

2027

49,822

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/annotation_euk/

 R10. Microcebus murinus

2487

59,023

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/annotation_euk/

 R11. Propithecus coquereli

2798

28,194

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/annotation_euk/

 R12. Tursiops truncatus

2478

38,849

[85, 86]

 R13. Balaenoptera acutorostrata

2432

37,625

[87, 88]

 R14. Physeter catodon

2512

50,591

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/annotation_euk/

 R15. Orcinus orca

2373

27,870

[85, 89, 90]

 R16. Lipotes vexillifer

2429

26,901

[91]

 R17. Delphinapterus leucas

2358

49,714

[92]

Birds and reptiles—LF

 L8. Pelecanus crispus

1161

16,298

[93]

 L9. Acanthisitta chloris

1036

16,077

[93]

 L10. Colius striatus

1076

15,797

[93]

 L11. Cariama cristata

1132

16,125

[93]

 L12. Tinamus guttatus

1047

17,873

[93]

 L13. Opisthocomus hoazin

1203

14,878

[93]

 L14. Crocodylus porosus

2085

28,676

[38, 94]

 L15. Alligator mississippiensis

2162

42,388

[38, 94]

 L16. Gavialis gangeticus

2415

27,294

[38, 94]

 L17. Alligator sinensis

2271

43,105

[95]

Birds and reptiles—R

 R18. Geospiza fortis

1065

16,724

[67, 93, 96]

 R19. Parus major

1020

39,666

[97, 98]

 R20. Anolis carolinensis

1799

34,827

[69]

Bony fishes—LF

 L18. Scleropages formosus

742

32,859

[39, 99, 100]

 L19. Lepisosteus oculatus

946

41,647

[40]

 L20. Latimeria chalumnae

2798

34,251

[101, 102]

Bony fishes—R

 R21. Notothenia coriiceps

637

31,979

[103]

 R22. Maylandia zebra

957

46,173

[59, 104]

 R23. Pundamilia nyererei

830

38,583

[59, 105]

 R24. Haplochromis burtoni

831

44,653

[59, 105, 106]

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