Gene number expansion and contraction in vertebrate genomes with respect to invertebrate genomes

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Table 1.

Numbers of gene types and gene copies in the vertebrate and invertebrate genomes

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Table 1.

aNumber of gene types is the sum of the number of singletons and the number of gene families.

bA total of 349 invertebrate gene copies are in the 170 families that are homologous to the four paleotetraploid fishes genomes but are not found in the eight tetrapod genomes under study.

NA, Not applicable.

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  1. Genome Res. 18: 221-232

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