Table 1.

New gene number categorized by different mechanisms

1446tbl1

(D. mel) D. melanogaster, (D. sch) D. sechellia, (D. sim) D. simulans. These three species together stand for the D. melanogaster species complex. Due to the lack of reliable annotation information of gene structure in D. yakuba (D. yak), we didn’t identify new genes originated from retroposition and de novo origination.