From: The Argonaute protein family
Species
Number of genes
Reference
Homo sapiens
8
[80]
Rattus norvegicus
[2]
Mus musculus
Drosophila melanogaster
5
[81]
Caenorhabditis elegans
27
[82]
Arabidopsis thaliana
10
[83]
Schizosaccharomyces pombe
1
Neurospora crassa
2