Levels of nucleotide diversity at synonymous and silent sites in some different organisms. (1) Mus musculus, (2) Homo sapiens, (3) Oryza sativa, (4) Plasmodium falciparum, (5) Fugu rubripes, (6) Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, (7) Anopheles gambiae, (8) Ciona intestinalis, (9) Arabidopsis thaliana, (10) Caenorhabditis elegans, (11) Zea mays, (12) Encephalitozoon cuniculi, (13) Drosophila melanogaster, (14) Leishmania major, (15) Trypanosoma species, (16) Toxoplasma gondii, (17) Giardia lamblia, (18) Neurospora crassa, (19) Dictyostelium discoideum, (20) Saccharomyces cerevisiae, (21) Cryptosporidium parvum, (22) Cryptococcus neoformans.
[Data from M. Lynch and J. S. Conery, Science 302, 2003, 1401-