A Pattern Analysis of Gene Conversion Literature

Table 3

Species Breakdown of Diversity and Conservation.

Species	ia	ia/div	ia/con	ig	ig/div	ig/con
Humans/Homo sapiens	152	142	1	149	22	69
Yeast/Saccharomyces cerevisiae	17	1	1	5	0	4
Mouse/Mus musculus	7	6	1	44	3	29
Chicken/Gallus gallus	1	1	0	19	4	12
Fruit Fly/Drosophila melanogaster	6	4	0	16	2	11
E. Coli/Escherichia coli	1	1	0	5	2	1
Rabbit/Oryctolagus cuniculus	1	1	0	7	2	4
Rat/Rattus norvegicus	0	0	0	19	1	15
Trypanosoma brucei	1	0	0	3	0	3
Fission yeast/Schizosaccharomyces pombe	2	0	0	0	0	0
Chimp/Pan troglodytes	3	2	1	11	2	5
Cow/Bos taurus	1	1	0	9	2	6
Ascobolus immersus	1	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese Hamster/Cricetelus griseus	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gonococci/Neisseria gonorrhoeae	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arabidopsis thaliana	0	0	0	5	0	5
Maize/Zea mays	0	0	0	5	1	4
Plasmodium falciparum	0	0	0	4	3	0
Salmonella/Salmonella typhimirium	0	0	0	4	0	3
Asexual Yeast/Candida albicans	1	1	0	0	0	0
Silk Moth/Bombyx mori	0	0	0	7	0	7
Tobacco/Nicotania tabacum	0	0	0	1	0	1
Aspergillus nidulans	0	0	0	0	0	0

In this table we list the species with the highest abstract counts and detail the type of gene conversion events they have undergone. Our focus here is on whether the conversion was between two distinct genes or two alleles from the same gene and whether the gene conversion event led to genetic diversity or gene conservation. Ia refers to an interallelic event and ia/div and ia/con refer to interallelic events that lead to genetic diversity and gene conservation, respectively. Ig refers to an intergenic event and ig/div and ig/con refer to intergenic events that lead to genetic diversity and gene conservation, respectively.