TABLE 1.
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.