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. 2016 Jun 15;6(8):2583–2591. doi: 10.1534/g3.116.030890

Table 1. Effective genome size (Ge), indel events per site per generation (uid), base-substitution mutation rate per generation (ubs), θs (or πs, denoted by *) measurements for population mutation rate (Watterson 1975; Tajima 1989; Fu 1995), and estimated effective population size (Ne) for seven prokaryotic and eight eukaryotic organisms (see File S1 for details).

Species Label Ge (× 107 Sites) Gc + Gnc (× 107 Sites) uid (× 10−10 per Site per Generation) ubs (× 10−10 Events per Site per Generation) θs or πs Ne (× 106)
Prokaryotes
 Agrobacterium tumefaciens Agt 0.50 0.57 0.30 2.92 0.200* 342.47
 Bacillus subtilis Bs 0.36 0.43 1.20d 3.35d 0.041 61.19
 Escherichia coli Ec 0.39 0.46 0.37e 2.00e 0.071 179.60
 Mesoplasma florum Mf 0.07 0.08 23.10f 97.80f 0.021 1.07
 Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pa 0.59 0.67 0.14g 0.79g 0.033* 210.70
 Staphlyococcus epidermidis Se 0.21 0.26 1.13 7.40 0.052 35.14
 Vibrio cholerae Vc 0.34 0.39 0.18 1.15 0.110 478.26
Eukaryotes
 Arabidopsis thaliana At 4.21 5.55a 11.20h 69.50h,p 0.008 0.29
 Caenorhabditis elegans Ce 2.50 6.37b 6.69i 14.50q 0.003 0.54
 Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Cr 3.92 5.51 0.44j 3.80j 0.032 43.31
 Drosophila melanogaster Dm 2.32 8.86c 4.61k 51.65k 0.018 0.86
 Homo sapiens Hs 3.65 21.75b 18.20l 135.13l 0.001 0.02
 Mus musculus Mm 3.55 27.17b 3.10m 54.00m 0.004* 1.77
 Paramecium tetraurelia Pt 5.68 7.28 0.04n 0.19n 0.008 101.80
 Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sc 0.87 1.02b 0.92o 2.63o 0.004 7.78

Gc + Gnc is the effective genome size when including the total amount of coding (Gc) and noncoding DNA (Gnc) that is estimated to be under purifying selection. Footnotes in uid and ubs indicate data sources (rates pooled when multiple data sources are available), and, when absent, indicate data generated in this study (see Materials and Methods).