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Table 4 Descriptive statistics for families and orders

From: Economic importance, taxonomic representation and scientific priority as drivers of genome sequencing projects

Families

     
 

Mean

Median

Std dev

Min

Max

Genomes sequenced

2.65

1

5.02

0

31

Value (USD millions)

40,288

2,429

127,325

0

963,585

No. of species

3,077

1,217

5,577

1

27,801

Orders

     
 

Mean

Median

Std dev

Min

Max

Genomes sequenced

5.65

3

7.35

0

32

Value (USD millions)

84,816

26,122

179,613

0

975,203

No. of species

7,908

5,450

8,531

1

27,500