Table 1 DNA sequence repeats on the assembled portion of the chicken genome.
From: DNA repeat arrays in chicken and human genomes and the adaptive evolution of avian genome size
Chromosome | Chromosome length (bp) | No. repeat arrays | Total repeat length (bp) (% of sequence) |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 188,239,860 | 283,761 | 27,978,835 (14.9%) |
2 | 147,590,765 | 214,512 | 19,430,497 (13.2%) |
3 | 108,638,738 | 151,571 | 12,198,434 (11.2%) |
4 | 90,634,903 | 121,663 | 8,905,732 (9.8%) |
5 | 56,310,377 | 69,048 | 4,638,645 (8.2%) |
6 | 33,893,787 | 38,873 | 2,468,824 (7.3%) |
7 | 37,338,262 | 41,189 | 2,397,200 (6.4%) |
8 | 30,024,636 | 33,974 | 2,086,343 (6.6%) |
9 | 23,409,228 | 24,255 | 1,384,475 (5.9%) |
10 | 20,909,726 | 19,914 | 1,075,555 (5.1%) |
11 | 19,020054 | 20,514 | 1,095,858 (5.8%) |
12 | 19,821,895 | 19,419 | 1,116,593 (5.6%) |
13 | 17,279,963 | 16,894 | 1,015,160 (5.9%) |
14 | 20,603,938 | 21,588 | 1,417,684 (6.9%) |
15 | 12,438,626 | 11,830 | 640,595 (5.2%) |
16 | 239,457 | 319 | 18,614 (7.8%) |
17 | 10,632,206 | 9,508 | 554,602 (5.2%) |
18 | 8,919,268 | 8,312 | 574,276 (6.4%) |
19 | 9,463,882 | 8,635 | 491,763 (5.2%) |
20 | 13,506,680 | 12,826 | 766,482 (5.7%) |
21 | 6,202,554 | 6,001 | 359,040 (5.8%) |
22 | 2,228,820 | 2,636 | 183,334 (8.2%) |
23 | 5,666,127 | 4,932 | 234,823 (5.7%) |
24 | 5,910,111 | 5,435 | 356,373 (6.0%) |
26 | 4,255,270 | 3,385 | 188,003 (4.4%) |
27 | 2,668,888 | 2,833 | 252,335 (9.5%) |
28 | 4,731,479 | 5,183 | 446,256 (9.4%) |
32 | 1,018,878 | 806 | 42,242 (4.1%) |