A bacterial genome in transition - an exceptional enrichment of IS elements but lack of evidence for recent transposition in the symbiont Amoebophilus asiaticus

Table 1 IS element statistics for the genome of A. asiaticus

No. of protein coding genes	1557
No. of transposase encoding genes	354 (23% of all protein coding genes)
No. of transposase encoding genes assigned to IS elements	329 (93% of all transposase genes)
No. of full-length IS element copies*	122
No. of partial IS element copies*	143
No. of full-length IS element copies with functional transposase gene	106 (87% of all full-length IS element copies)
No. of full-length IS element copies without direct repeats	101 (83% of all full-length IS element copies)

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