
Distribution of RCPs in eukaryotes. (A) Distribution of the RCPs in vertebrate species, Homo sapiens (human), Mus musculus (mouse), Rattus norvegicus (rat), Xenopus laevis (frog), Danio rerio (fish), and Gallus gallus (chicken). (B) Distribution of RCPs in nonvertebrate species, Drosophila melanogaster (fly), Oryza sativa (rice), Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress), Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast), Plasmodium falciparum (malaria), Anopheles gambiae str. PEST (mosquito), Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), and Triticum aestivum (wheat). The genomes of the chosen species have been completed or are near completion.











