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. 2009 Mar 27;4(3):e5040. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005040

Table 1. Statistics of retrogenes and retrofamilies.

Species # of retrogenes # of retrofamilies # of retrogenes per family
Human 163 (163) 150 1.09
Chimp 199 (80∼139) 187 1.07
Macaca 275 (110∼193) 240 1.15
Mouse 154 (154) 144 1.07
Rat 226 (170∼203) 202 1.12
Dog 95 (71∼86) 90 1.06
Cow 163 (122∼147) 148 1.10
Opossum 232 (93∼162) 220 1.05
Chicken 99 (40∼69) 89 1.11
Zebrafish 140(105∼126) 122 1.15
Fruitfly 212 (212) 188 1.13
Anopheles 108 (43∼76) 101 1.07

The criteria for refining retrogenes for functionality vary among species. The numbers in the parenthesis are the estimated numbers of functional retrogenes. See Text S1 for details.