Characteristics of 12 Drosophila species genomes Species Genome size (millions of Number of protein- base pairs) encoding genes D. melanogaster 200 13,733 D. simulans 15,983 162 D. sechellia 171 16,884 D. yakuba 190 16,423 D. erecta 135 15,324 D. ananassae 217 15,276 D. pseudoobscura D. persimilis 193 16,363 193 17,325 D. willistoni 222 15,816 D. virilis 364 14,680 D. mojavensis 130 14,849 D. grimshawi 231 15,270

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