Table II.1 DNA content in higher eukaryotes (Shapiro and Sternberg 2005)

Species

Genome size¹

% repetitive DNA

% coding sequences

Reference

Animals

Caenorhabditis elegans

100 MB

16.5

14

 (Stein, Bao et al. 2003)

Caenorhabditis briggsae

104 MB

22.4

13

 (Stein, Bao et al. 2003)

Drosophila melanogaster

175 MB

33.7 (female)

~57 (male)²

<10

 (Celniker, Wheeler et al. 2002; Bennett, Leitch et al. 2003)

Ciona intestinalis

157MB

35

9.5

 (Dehal, Satou et al. 2002)

Fugu rubripes

365MB

15

9.5

 (Aparicio, Chapman et al. 2002)

Canis domesticus

2.4GB

31

1.45

 (Kirkness, Bafna et al. 2003)

Mus musculus

2.5GB

40

1.4

 (Waterston, Lindblad-Toh et al. 2002)

Homo sapiens

2.9 GB

>50

1.2

 (Lander, Linton et al. 2001)

Plants

Arabidopsis thaliana

125-157 MB

13-14

21

(Initiative 2000; Bennett, Leitch et al. 2003)

Oryza sativa (indica)

466 MB

42

11.8

 (Yu, Hu et al. 2002)

Oryza sativa (Japonica)

420 MB

45

11.9

 (Goff, Ricke et al. 2002)

Zea mays

2.5 GB

77

1

 (Meyers, Tingey et al. 2001)