Finally, the zebra finch genome was found to have a significant fraction of transcribed mobile elements and a higher degree of intrachromosomal rearrangement relative to chicken. An example detailed by the consortium authors [3] refers to genes of the major histocompatibility complex, which are scattered across several chromosomes in the zebra finch genome; in the chicken and human genomes, such genes have a well established syntenic organization. Despite these informative species-specific differences, the population of coding genes and the syntenic organization of the zebra finch genome were found to be highly similar to that of the chicken and, in many respects, to that of humans.