Comparative Analysis of Gene Expression for Convergent Evolution of Camera Eye Between Octopus and Human

Table 3.

Categorization of Conserved Genes From the Viewpoint of Octopus Eye Genes


Categories

Vertebrate

Ciona

Insects

Worm

Total
Common genesa 646 646 646 646 646
Vertebrate-specific genesb 57 57
Ciona-specific genesb 20 20
Deutoromes-specific genesb 35 35 35
Lost genes only in vertebratec 0 0 0 0
Lost genes only in Cionac 38 38 38 38
Lost genes only in insectsc 19 19 19 19
Lost genes only in wormc 104 104 104 104
Lost genes in Ciona and wormc 35 35 35
Lost genes in vertebrate and insectsc 4 4 4
Lost genes in Ciona and insectsc 7 7 7
Lost genes in vertebrate and wormc 6 6 6
Conserved genes in out-group of bilateriad 48
Conserved genes from ancestral gene set 941 834 829 714 1019
Shared genes between octopus and insectse 19 19
Shared genes between octopus and worme 7 7
Shared genes in Protostomes lineagee 7 7 7
Shared genes between octopus and other species
94
834
855
728
1052
  • a Common genes are 646 genes that were shared by all species examined.

  • b Specific genes: some of these are genes conserved only in specific lineages, and especially 57 from vertebrate-specific genes, may have been related to the camera eye.

  • c Lost genes are genes that have been lost in the specific lineages.

  • d Conserved genes in out-group of bilateria are genes matched to proteins belonging to the out-group of bilaterian species but that do not match to proteins belonging to bilaterian species.

  • e These categories are not included in the ancestral gene set because they seem to have emerged after the divergence of protostomes and deuterostomes.

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  1. Genome Res. 14: 1555-1561

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