Short interspersed elements (SINEs) are a major source of canine genomic diversity

Table 2.

Survey of bimorphic SINE insertions from random genomic sequence of multiple dogs


Breed

Sequence reads

SINEC_Cf with unique flanks

SINEC_Cf absent from CanSS (%)

SINEC_Cf absent from CanFam1 (%)

SINEC_Cf absent from both (%)
Beagle 99,648 990 69 (7.0) 66 (6.7) 28 (2.8)
Labrador Retriever 99,744 942 78 (8.3) 69 (7.3) 28 (3.0)
German Shepherd 100,743 987 72 (7.3) 75 (7.6) 30 (3.0)
Italian Greyhound 98,208 889 79 (8.9) 72 (8.1) 33 (3.7)
English Shepherd 99,648 954 88 (9.2) 81 (8.5) 38 (4.0)
Bedlington Terrier 102,240 969 106 (10.9) 92 (9.5) 40 (4.1)
Portugese Water Dog 97,728 1013 95 (9.4) 94 (9.3) 42 (4.1)
Alaskan Malamute 100,704 932 96 (10.3) 87 (9.3) 45 (4.8)
Rottweiler 102,143 1040 106 (10.2) 120 (11.5) 52 (5.0)
Chinese Gray Wolf 23,423 169 16 (9.5) 17 (10.1) 7 (4.1)
Spanish Gray Wolf 22,176 185 18 (9.7) 15 (8.1) 9 (4.9)
Californian Coyote 23,790 240 29 (12.1) 28 (11.7) 19 (7.9)
Alaskan Gray Wolf 21,696 220 34 (15.4) 36 (16.4) 20 (9.1)
Indian Gray Wolf
22,560
227
32 (14.1)
29 (12.8)
21 (9.2)
  • Whole-genome shotgun reads from the NCBI Trace Archive were derived from nine dogs of different breeds, four wolves, and a coyote. Reads that contained SINEC_Cf sequences with nonrepetitive flanks were searched against CanSS and CanFam1, as described in the Methods section.

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