Table 2 Proposed nomenclature for dnmt3, tet and tdg genes.

From: Evolutionary history of DNA methylation related genes in chordates: new insights from multiple whole genome duplications

Species

Name proposed in Ensembl

Name proposed by Simoda et al.(2005)

Name proposed by Campos et al. (2012)

Proposed new nomenclature

Spotted gar

dnmt3aa

  

dnmt3a

dnmt3ba

  

dnmt3bb

dnmt3bb.1

  

dnmt3ba

tdg.1

  

tdg

Zebrafish

dnmt3aa

dnmt8

dnmt3a2

dnmt3aa

dnmt3ab

dnmt6

dnmt3a1

dnmt3ab

dnmt3bb.1

dnmt4

dnmt3b1

dnmt3ba

dnmt3ba

dnmt7

dnmt3b2

dnmt3bba

dnmt3bb.2

dnmt3

dnmt3b3

dnmt3bbb1

dnmt3bb.3

dnmt5

dnmt3b4

dnmt3bbb2

tdg1

  

tdga

tdg2

  

tdgb

 

Gene loci in Genomicus

Gene loci in NCBI

 

Proposed new nomenclature

Trout

scaffold_644

chr.12

 

dnmt1a

scaffold_1433

chr.13

 

dnmt1b

scaffold_4646

chr.8

 

dnmt3aa

scaffold_7288

chr.25

 

dnmt3ab1

scaffold_64

chr.19

 

dnmt3ab2

scaffold_5272

chr.16

 

dnmt3ba1

scaffold_78452

chr.9

 

dnmt3ba2

scaffold_3846

chr.16

 

dnmt3bba1

scaffold_384

chr.9

 

dnmt3bba2

scaffold_1281

chr.16

 

dnmt3bbb

scaffold_18888 & 2097

chr.1

 

tet1a

scaffold_189 & 12473

chr.23

 

tet1b

scaffold_1163

chr.19: 4604994..4635364

 

tet2a

/

chr.19: 4726729..4738210

 

tet2b

/

chr.10

 

tet2c

scaffold_21498 & 36080

chr.6

 

tet3a

scaffold_605

chr.11

 

tet3b

scaffold_2682

chr.4

 

tdgaa

scaffold_82

chr.2

 

tdgab

scaffold_2682

chr.4

 

tdgba

scaffold_82

chr.2

 

tdgbb