“…Furthermore, other vertebrates, such as wallabies, cats, dogs, horses or rodents, do not have dermcidin homologous genes [23]. Based on these facts, it is very astonishing that several publications claim that dermcidin is expressed in mice [19,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32], rats [33] and the tammar wallaby [34]. In summary, since dermcidin homologous genes are only found in primates, one can conclude that dermcidin is an orphan gene.…”