Table 1.

Number of Coding Transcripts for Different Species from ENSEMBL Version 64

Species	No of Protein Coding Genes	No of Transcripts
		Mean	Median	SD
Homo sapiens	21,165	4.33	3	4.06
Takifugu rubripes	18,523	2.58	2	2.09
Mus musculus	22,705	2.44	2	2.23
Drosophila melanogaster	13,781	1.59	1	1.51
Caenorhabditis elegans	20,389	1.47	1	1.14
Gallus gallus	16,736	1.33	1	0.80
Equus ferus caballus	20,436	1.11	1	0.43
Bos taurus	19,994	1.11	1	0.36

Note.—SD, standard deviation.