Table 1.
Overview of the species.
| Species | Sex:N | Mean age in month (SD) | Further information |
|---|---|---|---|
| House mouse, wild-type* (Mus musculus domesticus) | m:5 | 3.5 | Rodentia, Muridae F1 from wild-caught; (Klaus et al., 2012) |
| House mouse, DBA* | f:6 | 3 | Rodentia, Muridae; (van Dijk et al., in press) |
| House mouse, C57BL/6 | f:11; m:2 | 3 | Rodentia, Muridae; (van Dijk et al., in press) and (Fabricius et al., 2008) |
| Rat, Sprague-Dawley (Rattus norvegicus) | m:5 | ~5 | Rodentia, Muridae; (Fitting et al., 2010) |
| Rat, Wistar | m:5; f:5 | 1.5 (0.5) | Rodentia, Muridae; (West et al., 1991; Hosseini-Sharifabad and Nyengaard, 2007) |
| Yellow-necked wood mouse*& (Apodemus flavicollis) | f:2; m:4 | 4.3 (0.5) | Rodentia, Muridae; (Amrein et al., 2004a) |
| Harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) | n/a:5 | n/a, adult | Rodentia, Muridae; (Slomianka et al., 2013) |
| Sand rat*& (Psammomys obesus) | m:6 | 2.7 (0.3) | Rodentia, Cricetidae Harlan Laboratories, Israel |
| Bank vole*& (Myodes glareolus) | f:1; m:3 | 7.4 (6.9) | Rodentia, Cricetidae; (Amrein et al., 2004a) |
| Muskrat*& (Ondatra zibethicus) | f:3; m:3 | 9.5 (4.2) | Rodentia, Cricetidae wild-caught, Germany |
| Hamster*& (Mesocricetus auratus) | m:6 | 2.6 (0.2) | Rodentia, Cricetidae Harlan Laboratories, Netherlands |
| Cotton rat*& (Sigmodon hispidus) | m:6 | 2 (0.1) | Rodentia, Cricetidae Harlan Laboratories, Netherlands |
| Highveld mole-rat* (Cryptomys hottentotus) | f:6 | 20.3 (9.2) | Rodentia, Bathyergidae; (Amrein et al., 2014) |
| Cape mole-rat* (Georychus capensis) | f:4; m2 | 26 (10.7) | Rodentia, Bathyergidae; (Amrein et al., 2014) |
| Naked mole-rat* (Heterocephalus glaber) | f:1; m:4 | 39.3 (2.8) | |
| Eastern rock sengi (Elephantulus myurus) | f:4; m:4 | 8.8 (1.8) | Macroscelidea, Macroscelididae; (Slomianka et al., 2013) |
| Dog (Canis lupus familiaris) | n/a:10 | 109.1 (63.3) | Carnivora, Canidae; (Siwak-Tapp et al., 2008) |
| Pig, domestic (Sus scrofa domestica) | f:5 | 3.2 | Artiodactyla, Suidae; (Holm and West, 1994) |
| Common marmoset* (Callithrix jacchus) | f:2; m:3 | 53.6 (41.6) | Primates, Callitrichidae; (Amrein et al., 2015) |
| Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) | m:8 | 14 (21.4) | Primates, Cercopithecidae; (Keuker et al., 2003) |
| Human (Homo sapiens) | f:17; m:56 | 777 (260.8) | Primates, Hominidae; (West and Gundersen, 1990; West, 1993; Simic et al., 1997; Harding et al., 1998; Korbo et al., 2003) |
Superscripts mark groups for which principal cell number estimates (asterisk) and neurogenesis (ampersand) data are presented for the first time in this study.