Identification of transposable elements using multiple alignments of related genomes

Table 5.

Chromosomal distribution of new findings, broken down by relative age in the species tree


Chr

BDGPTrans set (known instances)

“Ancient” TEs of known families

“Ancient” TEs of new families

“Recent” TEs of known families

“Recent” TEs of new families

Subset of new families within threshold <3.0
X 276 17.6% 22 9.5% 19 10.2% 88 24.8% 42 21.0% 6 10.7%
2L 305 19.4% 57 24.6% 50 26.7% 40 11.3% 42 21.0% 15 26.8%
2R 312 19.9% 29 12.5% 39 20.9% 93 26.2% 39 19.5% 8 14.3%
3L 288 18.3% 78 33.6% 39 20.9% 96 27.0% 43 21.5% 12 21.4%
3R 288 18.3% 44 19.0% 40 21.4% 12 3.4% 27 13.5% 14 25.0%
4 102 6.5% 2 0.9% 0 0.0% 26 7.3% 7 3.5% 1 1.8%
Total
1571

232

187

355

200

56

  • “Ancient” and “recent” designations correspond to the tree in Figure 2. For each set, the number and percent composition is listed.

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