Long-read genome assembly of the insect model organism Tribolium castaneum reveals spread of satellite DNA in gene-rich regions by recurrent burst events

Table 1.

Statistics of Cast1–Cast9 arrays detected in the Tcas5.2 and TcasONT genome assemblies

Tcas5.2 TcasONT Total length difference (bp)
Array number Total length (bp) Array mean (bp) Maximal array length (bp) Genome abundance (%) Array number Total length (bp) Array mean (bp) Maximal array length (bp) Genome abundance (%)
Cast1 71 206,931 2915 61,324 0.140 106 865,816 8168 112,523 0.452 658,885
Cast2 121 178,456 1475 17,682 0.121 77 267,482 3474 54,320 0.140 89,026
Cast2′ 29 117,847 4064 21,938 0.080 258 2,928,418 11,350 66,157 1.529 2,810,571
Cast3 173 220,599 1275 4173 0.149 172 246,560 1433 10,679 0.129 25,961
Cast4 100 147,755 1478 9103 0.100 88 334,031 3796 56,181 0.174 186,276
Cast5 66 258,820 3922 12,025 0.175 148 2,897,522 19,578 85,403 1.512 2,638,702
Cast6 17 166,879 9816 43,796 0.113 23 715,260 31,098 77,335 0.373 548,381
Cast7 86 82,188 956 3729 0.056 273 332,266 1217 6028 0.173 250,078
Cast8 32 38,553 1205 4280 0.026 24 51,621 2151 6463 0.027 13,068
Cast9 117 145,832 1246 4575 0.099 98 139,574 1424 5958 0.073 –6,258
Total 812 1,563,860 1.059 1267 8,778,550 4.582 7,214,690

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  1. Published in Advance October 22, 2024, doi: 10.1101/gr.279225.124 Genome Res. 34: 1878-1894

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