Table 1.
Major repeat types in the chicken genome
|
Name |
Classa |
Copy Number |
Total bp |
|---|---|---|---|
| CR1 | LINE | 96,230 | 37,160,469 (3.10%) |
| Galluhop | Class 2/Mariner | 13,729 | 6,140,519 (0.51%) |
| Birddawg | LTR/gypsy | 7,404 | 2,697,928 (0.22%) |
| Kronos | LTR/gypsy | 4,961 | 3,021,541 (0.25%) |
| Hitchcock | LTR? | 3,324 | 811,951 (0.07%) |
| Charlie | Class 2 | 2,292 | 1,203,639 (0.10%) |
| Soprano | LTR | 1,362 | 768,648 (0.06%) |
| Telomeric | tandem | 362b | 252,835 (>0.1%) |
| Total
|
|
129,351
|
52,057,530 (4.31%)
|
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The copy number indicates the number of identified repeat units in the first draft of the publicly available chicken genome sequence. The number in parentheses is the total base-pair count for each repeat in percent of the whole genome.
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↵a A question mark indicates that the classification is uncertain
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↵b Copy number for telomeric repeats refers to the number of identified arrays of multiple tandem-repeated units
