Review Article

A Pattern Analysis of Gene Conversion Literature

Table 1

Species Breakdown.

Species Total Count Mechanism Event N/A

Humans/Homo sapiens 642 115 522 6
Yeast/Saccharomyces cerevisiae 490 463 24 3
Mouse/Mus musculus 188 89 97 2
Chicken/Gallus gallus 89 54 35 0
Fruit Fly/Drosophila melanogaster 88 45 41 2
E. Coli/Escherichia coli 46 37 7 2
Rabbit/Oryctolagus cuniculus 46 22 23 1
Rat/Rattus norvegicus 34 4 30 0
Trypanosoma brucei 34 21 13 0
Fission yeast/Schizosaccharomyces pombe 31 26 4 1
Chimp/Pan troglodytes 20 2 17 1
Cow/Bos taurus 18 4 14 0
Ascobolus immersus 18 4 14 0
Chinese Hamster/Cricetelus griseus 16 16 0 0
Gonococci/Neisseria gonorrhoeae 16 11 4 1
Arabidopsis thaliana 15 8 7 0
Maize/Zea mays 15 6 9 0
Plasmodium falciparum 13 6 7 0
Salmonella/Salmonella typhimirium 11 6 5 0
Asexual Yeast/Candida albicans 11 7 4 0
Silk Moth/Bombyx mori 10 0 10 0
Tobacco/Nicotania tabacum 10 7 3 0
Aspergillus nidulans 9 7 2 0

In this table, we have sorted the found species based on the number of abstracts they were found in (listed here as Total Count). In addition we list the amount of abstracts that dealt with a mechanism of gene conversion, a specific gene conversion event, or whether we were unable to determine if it was either based on the information given (N/A).