Table 1.
Variation in the number of apoptosis-related genes in the aphid lineage
| Species | Caspases | IAPs | Genome size (Mbp) | Genes encoding proteins | Assembly | Annotation release |
| Acyrthosiphon. pisum* | 6 | 28 | 541 | 18277 | GCA_005508785.1 | Annotation release 103 |
| Aphis glycines† | 4 | 26 | 303 | 42247 | Assembly v1.0 | Annotation v1.0 |
| Aphis gossypii* | 3 | 10 | 294 | 12828 | GCA_004010815.1 | Annotation release 100 |
| Cinara cedri* | 3 | 12 | 396 | 22234 | GCA_902439185.1 | Annotation release 100 |
| Daktulosphaira vitifoliae† | 4 | 31 | 283 | 25814 | Assembly 3.1 | Annotation v3.2 |
| Diuraphis noxia* | 3 | 6 | 397 | 12377 | GCA_001186385.1 | Annotation release 100 |
| Melanaphis sacchari* | 3 | 19 | 300 | 12320 | GCA_002803265.2 | Annotation release 100 |
| Myzus cerasi† | 5 | 9 | 406 | 28688 | Assembly v1.1 | Annotation v1.1 |
| Myzus persicae* | 4 | 21 | 347 | 14993 | GCA_001856785.1 | Annotation release 100 |
| Rhopalosiphum maidis* | 4 | 12 | 326 | 12060 | GCA_003676215.3 | Annotation release 101 |
| Rhopalosiphum padi† | 5 | 20 | 321 | 26535 | Assembly v1.0 | Annotation v2.0 |
| Sipha flava* | 4 | 10 | 353 | 13575 | GCA_003268045.1 | Annotation release 100 |
The complete lists of caspase- and IAP-encoding genes are available in the SI Appendix, Tables S2 and S3, respectively. Proteins were considered as putative caspases or IAPs if they possess at least one CASc or one BIR domain, respectively.
*
Species for which genomic data were obtained from the NCBI database.
†
Species for which genomic data were obtained from the AphidBase database.