Table 1

Number of Argonaute family genes in different species

Species
Number of genes
Reference

Homo sapiens
8
[80]
Rattus norvegicus
8
[2]
Mus musculus
8
[2]
Drosophila melanogaster
5
[81]
Caenorhabditis elegans
27
[82]
Arabidopsis thaliana
10
[83]
Schizosaccharomyces pombe
1
[2]
Neurospora crassa
2
[2]

Höck and Meister Genome Biology 2008 9:210   doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-2-210