Table 1.
Orthologs of the Members of the Three Different RNAi Pathways Identified in 100 Investigated Insect Transcriptomes (subset of data published by Misof et al. 2014)
| Gene | Pathway | Present | Duplicates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argonaute1 | miRNA | 67 | 0 |
| Dicer1 | miRNA | 66 | 2 |
| Loquacious | miRNA | 87 | 0 |
| Drosha | miRNA | 79 | 0 |
| Pasha | miRNA | 80 | 2 |
| Argonaute2 | siRNA | 94 | 6 |
| Dicer2 | siRNA | 80 | 0 |
| R2D2 | siRNA | 68 | 3 |
| Aubergine/Piwi | piRNA | 89 | 28 |
| Argonaute3 | piRNA | 51 | 1 |
| Sid-1/Tag-130 | Systemic RNAi | 68 | 7 |
Note.—The present column shows the number of transcriptomes (out of 100) in which a putative ortholog was found. The duplicates column shows the number of transcriptomes (out of 100) in which more than one putative ortholog for a given gene was identified. For this study, we used assembly version 2 of all transcriptomes, released in October 2015.