The complete genome sequence of the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

BMC Genomics

Table 2 Summary of gene families of S. caffer and twelve other mammalian genomes

Species	Total number of orthologous genes	Number of unclustered genes	Number of gene families	Number of unique families	Average number of genes per family
F. catus	19,440	613	9549	14	1.97
R. norvegicus	22,656	432	9698	22	2.29
P. troglodytes	18,613	484	9580	25	1.89
C. familiaris	19,818	771	9508	16	2.00
E. caballus	20,372	229	9364	22	2.15
H. sapiens	22,214	371	9836	24	2.22
M. musculus	22,484	655	9718	45	2.25
S. scrofa	21,526	1860	9392	120	2.09
O. aries	20,786	523	9878	29	2.05
T. truncatus	16,476	245	9082	2	1.79
B. taurus	19,950	108	9552	1	2.08
S. caffer	19,292	1295	8888	52	2.02
C. ferus ^a	23,017	784	9269	16	2.40

^a C. ferus genome was downloaded from NCBI(ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Camelus_ferus), while all other genomes were download from Ensemble release-78(ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-78)
The figures in bold are intended to highlight the information obtained from the buffalo

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