Striking structural dynamism and nucleotide sequence variation of the transposon Galileo in the genome of Drosophila mojavensis

Table 1 Summary of the Galileo copies studied in this work

Structural type	Subfamily						Total
Structural type	C	D	E	F	X	Chimeric
Nearly complete (>2 kb TPase)	2	5	0	1	1	1	10
Nearly complete deletion derivatives	4	2	0	1	2	0	9
2 TIR	5	0	7	28	3	6	49
2 recombinant TIR	2	2	22	3	4	5	38
Solo-TIR	6	10	19	26	3	0	64
Total	19	19	48	59	13	12	170
Mean TIR % identity between copies	97.1	96.5	93.9	92	92	79	79.5

The different subfamilies and structures are indicated. The average of pairwise identity in each subfamily is shown (percentage calculated from 238 TIR alignment with MEGA 5.1 [25]). TIR terminal inverted repeats.

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