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. 2021 May 11;12:672433. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.672433

TABLE 1.

List of eggshell proteomes and the presence of transcriptome/genome in bird and reptile species.

Species Common name Eggshell proteins Uterine transcriptome/genome Proteome references
Neognathae → Galloanserae
Gallus gallus Chicken 904 Yes/yes Mann et al., 2006; Marie et al., 2015a
Meleagris gallopavo Turkey 697 No/yes Mann and Mann, 2013
Numida meleagris Guinea fowl 154 Yes/no Le Roy et al., 2019
Coturnix japonica Japanese quail 622 Yes/yes Mann and Mann, 2015
Anas platyrhynchos Mallard duck 484 Yes/yes Zhu et al., 2019
Neognathae → Neoaves
Taeniopygia guttata Zebra finch 475 No/yes Mann, 2015
Palaeognathae
Struthio camelus Common ostrich 2 No/yes Mann and Siedler, 2004
Dromaius novaehollandiae Emu 2 No/yes Mann and Siedler, 2006
Rhea americana Greater rhea 2 No/yes Mann and Siedler, 2006
Crocodilia
Crocodylus siamensis Siamese crocodile 58 No/no Mikšík et al., 2018

Hundreds of proteins have been identified in eggshell proteomes in a small number of species. The presence of uterine transcriptome characterization and/or genome annotation in these species was checked in NCBI databases.