Table 1.

Number of Argonaute family genes in different species

Species	Number of genes	Reference
Homo sapiens	8	[80]
Rattus norvegicus	8	[2]
Mus musculus	8	[2]
Drosophila melanogaster	5	[81]
Caenorhabditis elegans	27	[82]
Arabidopsis thaliana	10	[83]
Schizosaccharomyces pombe	1	[2]
Neurospora crassa	2	[2]