Table 1

Gene sizes of the R7 core genes and R2 to R6 strain-variable ORFs located in the variable segments

RNumber
Number of ORFs
Mean size (bp)
Median size (bp)

R7
4,816
1,009
856
R6
366
976
744
R5
225
1006
579
R4
304
567
330
R3
558
404
237
R2
696
332
219

'Rnumber' refers to the number of species carrying open reading frame (ORF) homologs. bp, base pairs.

Fuxelius et al. Genome Biology 2008 9:R42   doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-2-r42