Table 2.

The Transposable Elements of Dictyostelium discoideum

Subgroup Class Transposon Accession no. Consensus length (bp) LTR TSD (bp) Genome content (% nt) Fragment no.
type length (bp) Nr ML (N) FI
LTRDIRS-1DIRS-1* M11339 4826IR32003.2602353021.3
transposonsgypsyskipper* AF049230 6994DR39050.99750821.7
skipper_LTR* 3900.01110n.d.n.d.
DGLT-A AF298204 5054DR2684/50.067571.5
H3R* X59570 2680.01315n.d.n.d.
DGLT-P AF298205 (6017)n.d.n.d.n.d.0.04710171.5
Non-LTRTRE3TRE3-A* AF134169 5243n.d.0.96060821.3
transposonsTRE3-B* AF134170 5292n.d.0.77050681.3
TRE3-C* AF134171 4751n.d.0.45030361.1
TRE3-D AF135841 (2816)n.d.0.0515162.7
TRE5TRE5-A* X57034 ∼6200n.d.1.22070921.3
TRE5-B AF298209 ∼5700n.d.0.20015362.1
TRE5-C AF298210 (890)n.d.0.0125123.0
DNATdd-4Tdd-4* U57081 3843IR14650.42540551.4
transposonsTdd-5 AF298206 4031IR18350.0765203.3
DDTDDT-A AF298201 5169IR4820.30920653.3
DDT-B AF298202 5471IR3820.31420683.6
DDT-S AF298203 758IR2720.2951301751.3
Unclassifiedthugthug-S AF298207 2192IR1840.05810192.1
thug-T AF298208 1132IR840.03810181.6
Total9.5737501195

[i] DR, direct repeat; IR, inverted repeat; Nr, rounded copy number as estimated from genome content; ML(N), maximum likelihood estimate of fragment number; FI, fragmentation index; TSD, size of target site duplication.