Current Species
The annotated genomes include most fully sequenced vertebrates and selected model organisms. All of them are eukaryotes, there are no prokaryotes. Currently this includes:
- Chordata
- Mammalia
- Primates: Bushbaby, Chimp, Human, Macaque, Mouse Lemur, Orangutan, Tarsier ;
- Scandentia: Tree shrew ;
- Glires (= Rodents + Lagomorphs): Guineapig, Kangaroo rat, Mouse, Rat, Ground Squirrel, Pika, Rabbit ;
- Laurasiatheria: Cow, Dolphin, Alpaca, Pig, Cat, Dog, Horse, Megabat, Microbat, Hedgehog, Shrew ;
- Afrotheria: Elephant, Hyrax, Tenrec
- Xenarthra: Armadillo, sloth ;
- Marsupialia: Opossum, Wallaby ;
- Monotremes: Platypus ;
- Birds: Chicken, Zebra Finch ;
- Lepidosauria: Anole Lizard (pre) ;
- Lissamphibia: Xenopus tropicalis ;
- Teleost fishes: Takifugu rubripes (Fugu), Tetraodon nigroviridis (Green spotted pufferfish), Danio rerio (Zebrafish), Oryzias latipes (Medaka), Gasterosteus aculeatus (Stickleback) ;
- Cyclostomata: Petromyzon marinus (Sea lamprey) (pre) ;
- Tunicates: Ciona intestinalis, Ciona savignyi ;
- Mammalia
- Non-vertebrates
- Insects: Drosophila melanogaster (Fruitfly), Anopheles gambiae (Mosquito), Aedes aegypti (Mosquito)
- Worm: Caenorhabditis elegans
- Yeast: Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Baker's yeast)
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