Table 1.
Summary of TE-related repeats in the mammoth genome compared with opossum and human
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M4 is a male Siberian mammoth specimen used for extensive sequencing; we generated 2.8 Gb of data from hair shafts using a Roche GS FLX sequencing instrument. A second mammoth specimen, M25, yielded an additional 193 Mb. Together with earlier mammoth data (MOther), this brought the total to 4.17 Gb of sequence. After the removal of possible contaminating DNA, we used a total of 2.82 Gb of mammoth genomic data to scan for interspersed repeats.
