Table 3. Species with formal scientific names represented with sequence entries in GenBank.

	1993	2004	2009	2014
animals	1682	41 668	82 706	139 469
plants	942	42 934	78 149	110 303
fungi	439	11 915	19 887	28 340
protists	305	4080	6544	8997
bacteria	1284	6897	11 024	13 029
archaea	64	299	439	511
viruses	442	1504	1953	2051
	5158	108 297	200 702	302 702