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. 2008 Sep 21;2008:545269. doi: 10.1155/2008/545269

Table 3.

Occurrence of parallel, convergent, and divergent orientations among gene pairs. Both absolute numbers and percentages are shown.

Parallel Convergent Divergent
Genome TAG Genome TAG Genome TAG
Human 15843 1379 7625 246 7634 266
(50.9%) (72.9%) (24.5%) (13.0%) (24.5%) (14.1%)

Chimp 12095 1062 6199 191 6203 209
(49.4%) (72.6%) (25.3%) (13.1%) (25.3%) (14.3%)

Macaca 13273 1252 6345 230 6351 238
(51.1%) (72.8%) (24.4%) (13.4%) (24.5%) (13.8%)

Mouse 14307 2401 6705 377 6703 365
(51.6%) (76.4%) (24.2%) (12.0%) (24.2%) (11.6%)

Rat 13967 2127 6604 353 6602 375
(51.4%) (74.5%) (24.3%) (12.4%) (24.3%) (13.1%)

Cattle 8833 605 4518 116 4514 117
(49.4%) (72.2%) (25.3%) (13.8%) (25.3%) (14.0%)

Dog 11116 802 5549 138 5553 141
(50.0%) (74.2%) (25.0%) (12.8%) (25.0%) (13.0%)

Opossum 9861 1641 4864 234 4864 225
(50.3%) (78.1%) (24.8%) (11.1%) (24.8%) (10.7%)

Chicken 8006 581 3963 60 3967 62
(50.2%) (82.6%) (24.9%) (8.5%) (24.9%) (8.8%)

Zebrafish 15228 1865 6102 261 6102 299
(55.5%) (76.9%) (22.2%) (10.8%) (22.2%) (12.3%)

Tetraodon 8806 1563 3363 52 3362 55
(56.7%) (93.6%) (21.7%) (3.1%) (21.6%) (3.3%)