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Table 2 Comparison of age of loci among diverse mammal genomes

From: The decline of human endogenous retroviruses: extinction and survival

Species

Common name

Order

Number of young loci (0–6.6my) a

Number of old loci (6.6-31.6my) a

Ratio of young to old loci

Homo sapiens

Human

Primates - Hominoidea

66

2468

0.027

Pan troglodytes

Chimpanzee

Primates- Hominoidea

152

1745

0.087

Gorilla gorilla

Western gorilla

Primates- Hominoidea

138

1345

0.103

Pongo pygmaeus

Bornean orangutan

Primates- Hominoidea

723

1857

0.389

Nomascus leucogenys

White-cheeked crested gibbon

Primates - Hominoidea

1113

6083

0.183

Macaca mulatta

Rhesus macaque

Primates - Cercopithecidae

187

1531

0.122

Papio hamadryas

Hamadryas baboon

Primates- Cercopithecidae

241

1266

0.190

Callithrix jacchus

Common marmoset

Primates - New World Monkeys

136

605

0.225

Tarsius syrichta

Philippine tarsier

Primates - tarsiers

1845

1195

1.544

Microcebus murinus

Gray mouse lemur

Primates - lemurs

751

398

1.887

Otolemur garnettii

Northern greater galago

Primates - lorises

255

412

0.619

Echinops telfairi

Small Madagascar hedgehog tenrec

Afrotheria

185

786

0.235

Bos taurus

Domestic cow

Artiodactyla

182

793

0.230

Sus scrofa

Domestic pig

Artiodactyla

19

59

0.322

Vicugna pacos

Alpaca

Artiodactyla

176

96

1.833

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

Giant Panda

Carnivora

56

80

0.700

Canis familiaris

Domestic dog

Carnivora

26

119

0.218

Felis catus

Domestic cat

Carnivora

167

204

0.819

Tursiops truncatus

Bottlenose dolphin

Cetacea

20

192

0.104

Myotis lucifugus

Little brown bat

Chiroptera

308

308

1000

Pteropus vampyrus

Large flying fox

Chiroptera

106

187

0.567

Erinaceus europaeus

West European hedgehog

Erinaceomorpha

1667

1268

1.315

Procavia capensis

Cape hyrax

Hyracoidea

1164

870

1.338

Ochotona princeps

American pika

Lagomorpha

309

277

1.116

Oryctolagus cuniculus

European rabbit

Lagomorpha

316

268

1.179

Macropus eugenii

Tammar wallaby

Marsupialia

54

491

0.110

Monodelphis domestica

Gray short-tailed opposum

Marsupialia

1162

4344

0.267

Ornithorhynchus anatinus

Duck-billed platypus

Monotremata

163

94

1.734

Equus caballus

Horse

Perissodactyla

22

159

0.138

Choloepus hoffmanni

Hoffmanns two-toed sloth

Pilosa

711

1425

0.499

Loxodonta africana

African bush elephant

Proboscidea

416

1411

0.295

Cavia porcellus

Guinea pig

Rodentia

1608

1450

1.109

Dipodomys ordii

Ord's kangaroo rat

Rodentia

273

223

1.224

Mus musculus

House Mouse

Rodentia

3045

1402

2.172

Rattus norvegicus

Brown rat

Rodentia

737

897

0.822

Spermophilus tridecemlineatus

Thirteen-lined ground squirrel

Rodentia

1271

726

1.751

Tupaia belangeri

Northern treeshrew

Scandentia

295

315

0.937

Sorex araneus

Common shrew

Soricomorpha

502

395

1.271

Dasypus novemcinctus

Nine-banded armadillo

Xenarthra

1631

3240

0.503

  1. aAge of locus is estimated using our nearest-neighbor method with a substitution rate of 2.2×109 substitutions per nucleotide per year and a Jukes-Cantor correction for multiple hits.