Table 3 Summary of the numbers of protein orthologs associated with the three RNAi pathways identified in the nine investigated Acari genomes. Asterisk (*) following species name abbreviation indicates that its genome is fully sequenced whereas no asterisk indicates that its genome is partially sequenced
From: A genome-wide screening for RNAi pathway proteins in Acari
Proteins | Acari Super-order | Parasitiformes | Acariformes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acari orders | Ixodida | Mesostigmata | Trombidiformes | Sarcoptiformes | ||||||
Species/Pathway | Is* | Mo* | TM | Vd | Vj | Tu* | Dp | Em | Ss | |
Drosha | miRNA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Dicer1 | miRNA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Dicer2 | siRNA | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Argonaute1 | miRNA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Argonaute 2 | siRNA | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
Argonaute 3 | piRNA | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Aubergine/Piwi | piRNA | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rsd-3 | Cellular dsRNA uptake | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Eater | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
SR-CI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
RdRP | siRNA amplification | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
Sid-1/SilA/SilB/SilC | Systemic RNAi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |