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. 2012 Nov 23;41(Database issue):D358–D365. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks1116

Table 1.

OrthoDB species and gene content

Lineage Representative species Input genes
Classified genes (%) Percentage of classified genes
Total Average in groups with annotation(s)a in groups with phenotype(s)b
52 Vertebrates 951 245 18 293 92.7 96.3 48.4
    Homo sapiens 20 827 na 94.9 93.5 45.6
    Mus musculus 23 075 na 87.0 96.5 47.9
    Danio rerio 26 206 na 80.7 96.9 48.5
45 Arthropods 746 324 16 585 71.1 87.1 25.1
    Drosophila melanogaster 13 927 na 96.1 86.5 26.6
110c Metazoa 1 974 947 17 954 81.9 93.5 60.8
    Caenorhabditis elegans 20 517 na 71.5 84.7 61.4
142 Fungi 1 223 848 8619 85.0 86.8 49.3
    Saccharomyces cerevisiae 6652 na 96.2 91.9 94.8
1115 Bacteria 3 532 434 3168 91.0 91.6 47.1
    Escherichia coli 4149 na 97.8 97.7 98.8
    Haemophilus influenza 1657 na 98.2 98.8 85.3
    Mycobacterium tuberculosis 3977 na 95.5 93.3 35.9

Statistics describing OrthoDB species coverage of vertebrate, arthropod, basal metazoan, fungal and bacterial orthologs with rich functional annotations.

aGO terms or InterPro domains.

bFrom Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, the Mouse Genome Database, the Zebrafish Model Organism Database, FlyBase, WormBase, Saccharomyces Genome Database, EcoGene or the Database of Essential Genes.

c13 basal metazoan species plus 52 vertebrates and 45 arthropods.