Table 4

Comparison of five aging relevant genes of N. furzeri with orthologs of medaka, stickleback, tetraodon, zebrafish and humans

Gene*

N. furzeri GRZ (amino acids)

Medaka (%)^†

Stickleback (%)^†

Tetraodon (%)^†

Zebrafish (%)^†

Human (%)^†

Cdkn2b

128

NA

NA

66.4

52.3

49.3

Cdkn2d

165

89.1

84.2

79.0

NA

53.0

Msra

237

78.0

75.3

79.0

74.5

64.7

Sirt1

689

72.0

71.8

69.4

53.8

51.8

Tp53

372

59.1^‡

56.6

59.1

45.5

40.0

*Sequences used for alignments are given in Additional data file 7. ^†Protein identity is given. ^‡Partial sequence. NA, not available.

Reichwald et al. Genome Biology 2009 10:R16   doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-2-r16