Table 1.

List of species used for this study forming Suite 1 and Suite 2. The gene numbers and the number of gene families that are shared with humans at the metazoan root of the phylogeny are obtained from OrthoDB release 10.

Species name	Common name	NCBI taxonomic identifier	Suite	Number of genes	Number of gene families	Number of genes in gene families
Homo sapiens	Humans	9606	1 & 2	21,933	10,441	18,517
Mus musculus	Mouse	10090	1 & 2	22,935	10,282	19,198
Rattus norvegicus	Brown rat	10116	2	23,126
Xenopus tropicalis	Clawed frog	8364	1 & 2	21,192	9018	17,709
Fundulus heteroclitus	Killifish	8078	1	29,153	8694	20,110
Gallus gallus	Chicken	9031	2	30,300
Danio rerio	Zebrafish	7955	1 & 2	29,369	8839	21,597
Drosophila melanogaster	Fruit fly	7227	1 & 2	17,049	4683	7324
Anopheles gambiae	Mosquito	7165	1	13,035	4589	6846
Nasonia vitripennis	Jewel wasp	7425	1	15,593	5204	7660
Daphnia magna	Water flea	35525	1	29,112	5248	9693
Daphnia pulex	Water flea	6669	1	30,193	5560	10,865
Hyalella azteca	Amphipod	294128	1	18,560	5611	9554
Caenorhabditis elegans	Roundworm	6239	1 & 2	20,571	4052	6,889