Table 2.
The Transposable Elements of Dictyostelium discoideum
| Subgroup | Class | Transposon | Accession no. | Consensus length (bp) | LTR | TSD (bp) | Genome content (% nt) | Fragment no. | |||||||||
| type | length (bp) | Nr | ML (N) | FI | |||||||||||||
| LTR | DIRS-1 | DIRS-1* | M11339 | 4826 | IR | 320 | 0 | 3.260 | 235 | 302 | 1.3 | ||||||
| transposons | gypsy | skipper* | AF049230 | 6994 | DR | 390 | 5 | 0.997 | 50 | 82 | 1.7 | ||||||
| skipper_LTR* | 390 | 0.011 | 10 | n.d. | n.d. | ||||||||||||
| DGLT-A | AF298204 | 5054 | DR | 268 | 4/5 | 0.067 | 5 | 7 | 1.5 | ||||||||
| H3R* | X59570 | 268 | 0.013 | 15 | n.d. | n.d. | |||||||||||
| DGLT-P | AF298205 | (6017) | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | 0.047 | 10 | 17 | 1.5 | ||||||||
| Non-LTR | TRE3 | TRE3-A* | AF134169 | 5243 | — | — | n.d. | 0.960 | 60 | 82 | 1.3 | ||||||
| transposons | TRE3-B* | AF134170 | 5292 | — | — | n.d. | 0.770 | 50 | 68 | 1.3 | |||||||
| TRE3-C* | AF134171 | 4751 | — | — | n.d. | 0.450 | 30 | 36 | 1.1 | ||||||||
| TRE3-D | AF135841 | (2816) | — | — | n.d. | 0.051 | 5 | 16 | 2.7 | ||||||||
| TRE5 | TRE5-A* | X57034 | ∼6200 | — | — | n.d. | 1.220 | 70 | 92 | 1.3 | |||||||
| TRE5-B | AF298209 | ∼5700 | — | — | n.d. | 0.200 | 15 | 36 | 2.1 | ||||||||
| TRE5-C | AF298210 | (890) | — | — | n.d. | 0.012 | 5 | 12 | 3.0 | ||||||||
| DNA | Tdd-4 | Tdd-4* | U57081 | 3843 | IR | 146 | 5 | 0.425 | 40 | 55 | 1.4 | ||||||
| transposons | Tdd-5 | AF298206 | 4031 | IR | 183 | 5 | 0.076 | 5 | 20 | 3.3 | |||||||
| DDT | DDT-A | AF298201 | 5169 | IR | 48 | 2 | 0.309 | 20 | 65 | 3.3 | |||||||
| DDT-B | AF298202 | 5471 | IR | 38 | 2 | 0.314 | 20 | 68 | 3.6 | ||||||||
| DDT-S | AF298203 | 758 | IR | 27 | 2 | 0.295 | 130 | 175 | 1.3 | ||||||||
| Unclassified | thug | thug-S | AF298207 | 2192 | IR | 18 | 4 | 0.058 | 10 | 19 | 2.1 | ||||||
| thug-T | AF298208 | 1132 | IR | 8 | 4 | 0.038 | 10 | 18 | 1.6 | ||||||||
| Total | 9.573 | 750 | 1195 | ||||||||||||||
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DR, direct repeat; IR, inverted repeat; Nr, rounded copy number as estimated from genome content; ML(N), maximum likelihood estimate of fragment number; FI, fragmentation index; TSD, size of target site duplication.
