Table 1.

Species included in the phylogenetic comparison. Common and scientific names are included. The common name will be used in the comparison presented here.

Common Name	Scientific Name
Mouse	Mus musculus
Chicken	Gallus gallus
Fly	Drosophila melanogaster
Mosquito	Anopheles gambiae
Purple sea urchin	Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Trypanosome	Trypanosoma brucei
	Trypanosoma cruzi
Nematode	Caenorhabditis elegans
Rice	Oryza sativa
Thale cress	Arabidopsis thaliana
Wine grape	Vitis vinifera
Fission yeast	Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Budding yeast	Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Archaea	Haloferax volcanii