Abundance, Distribution, and Transcriptional Activity of Repetitive Elements in the Maize Genome

Table 4.

Occurrence of Retrotransposons in Centromere- and Knob-Repeat Containing BACs

Centromeric BACs Knob BACs
Additional repeats Number of BACs Additional repeats Number of BACs
H 1 P2, P1, Z, A 1
H, G 8 H, P2, O, G, P1 1
H, G, O 11 H, P2, O, G, P1, Z 1
H, G, O, Z 1 H, P2, G, P1, Z, A 1
H, G, O, A 1 None 1

  • ↵A set of 652 BACs was scored for the presence of the centromere tandem repeat CentC (AF078922) and the knob 180 bp tandem repeat (M32521). The other repeats scored are the same as in Table 2.

  • ↵H = Huck, G = Grande, O = Opie, Z = Zeon-1, A = ANLI, P1 = Prem-1, P2 = Prem-2.

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  1. Published in Advance September 20, 2001, doi: 10.1101/gr.188201 Genome Res. 11: 1660-1676

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