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Table 3 Repeat content in dipteran genomes

From: Diversity of transposable elements and repeats in a 600 kb region of the fly Calliphora vicina

  

% Genome

Class I

 

Class II

   

Species

Genome size

All TEs

LTR

Non-LTR (LINE)

DNA (TIR)

Helitron

Other

Unclassified

Drosophila melanogaster

180 Mb

6%1

4.20%1

1.38%1

0.30%1

-

0.12%1

-

Drosophila ananassae

231 Mb

25%1

15.5%1

7.00%1

1.25%1

-

1.25%1

-

Drosophila virilis

206 Mb

14%1

9.94%1

3.36%1

0.28%1

-

0.42%1

-

Drosophila grimshawii

200 Mb

3%1

1.53%1

0.66%1

0.57%1

-

0.24%1

-

Calliphora vicina (600 kb region)

750 Mb

24%*

3.54%

2.95%

7.86%

5.01%

-

5.24%

Anopheles gambiae

278 Mb

16%2

2.64%4

3.75%4

4.54%4

0.11%4

-

-

Aedes aegypty

1,376 Mb

47%3

12.41%4

12.67%4

13.97%4

1.26%4

-

-

Culex quinquefasciatus

579 Mb

28%4

3.89%4

4.45%4

19.40%4

0.49%4

-

-

  1. *% of TEs based on the 600 kb region analysed in this study, data from other species comes from whole genome sequences. References: 1Drosophila 12 genomes consortium 2007; [37]2Holt, et al.[5]; 3Nene, et al.[7]; 4Arensburger, et al.[6].