Research Article

Tandemly Arrayed Genes in Vertebrate Genomes

Table 5

Statistics of species-specific tandem arrays (SSTAs). The percentages in the parenthesis are shown as follows: percentage of SSTAs to the total number of tandem arrays and percentage of size-two SSTAs to the total number of SSTAs.

SpeciesNumber of Number of size-two Hypergeometric test -value

Human75 (7.12%)49 (65.33%)4.62e-01
Chimp14 (1.56%)14 (100%)0
Macaca85 (7.08%)78 (91.76%)1.00e-07
Mouse111 (8.83%)63 (56.76%)7.10e-01
Rat92 (7.09%)68 (73.91%)4.48e-03
Cattle79 (10.88%)65 (82.28%)9.49e-02
Dog46 (5.96%)45 (97.83%)4.48e-06
Opossum95 (9.36%)66 (69.47%)1.24e-01
Chicken139 (22.79%)118 (84.89%)1.14e-01
Zebrafish684 (37.85%)366 (53.51%)1
Tetraodon584 (39.81%)457 (78.25%)1