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. 2006 Nov 11;35(Database issue):D55–D60. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkl851

Table 1.

Contents of the pseudogene database at time of submission (June 2006)

Genome Number of pseudogenes
Eukaryotes
    Homo sapiens (human) 31 768
    Pan troglodytes (chimp) 8355
    Mus musculus (mouse) 15 320
    Rattus norvegicus (rat) 10 750
    Canis familiaris (dog) 2802
    Gallus gallus (chicken) 4179
    Danio rerio (zebrafish) 15 779
    Anopheles gambiae (mosquito) 1713
    Drosophila melanogaster (fly) 484
    Plasmodium falciparum 5179
    Tetraodon nigroviridis 3250
Eukaryote total 99 579
Prokaryotes (sample)
    Thermotoga maritima 37
    Borrelia burgdorferi 10
    Pseudomonas aeruginosa 187
    Escherichia coli K12 134
    Buchnera sp. APS 18
    Bacillus subtilis 203
    Chlamydia trachomatis 11
    Thermoplasma acidophilum 39
    Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus 35
    Sulfolobus solfataricus 172
Prokaryote total (including 54 genomes not shown) 6890
Database total 106 469

All eukaryotic organisms in the database are displayed; listing of prokaryotes has been limited to 10 out of 64 contained in the database.