| Year |
Organism |
What is it? |
Bases |
| 1976 |
Bacteriophage
MS-2 |
single strand RNA virus
|
3, 569 |
| PhiX-174 |
circular DNA
bacteriophage |
5,386 |
|
| 1995 |
Haemophilus influenza |
bacteria
causing meningitis |
1.8 million |
| Methanococcus jannaschii |
thermophilic methanogen |
1.7 million |
|
| 1996 |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
yeast |
12.1 million |
| 1998 |
Caenorhabditis elegans |
roundworm |
100 million |
| 2000 |
Arabidopsis thaliana |
thale cress grass |
119 million |
| Drosophilia mealngaster |
fruit fly |
165 million |
|
| 2001 |
Homo sapiens |
human |
3.2 billion |
| 2002 |
Mus musculus |
house mouse |
3.48 billion |
| Anopheles gambiae |
mosquito |
278 million |
|
| Takifugu rubripes |
Japanese pufferfsih |
390 million |
|
| Oryza sativa |
rice |
374 million |
|
| 2004 |
Gallus gallus |
red jungle fowl |
1 billion |
| 2005 |
Pan troglodyte |
chimpanzee |
3.3 billion |
| 2010 |
Xenpous tropicalis |
clawed frog |
1.5 million |
| 2013 |
Danio rerio |
zebrafish |
1.5 billion |
| present | hundreds of species | protists, plants,fungi, animals | 0.5 Mil to 5.5 Bil |