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Table 2 Distribution of satellites in different species

From: High evolutionary turnover of satellite families in Caenorhabditis

      

Nr of satellites with different repeat sizes/Mb

Nr. satellites Repeat 84

Species

Size Genome (Mb)

CG %

Number of satellites

Satellites/Mb

Sats/Mb >2 Kb

11-20

21-49

50-99

100-150

>150

C.elegans

100.3

35.4

1779

17.7

3.8

8.18

8.18

0.81

0.14

0.35

1

C.briggsae

108.4

37.5

2778

25.6

5.4

21.5

3.23

0.40

0.26

0.34

0

C.remanei

145.4

38.0

1643

11.3

4.2

4.55

2.48

1.40

0.65

1.97

0

C.brenneri

190.4

38.6

1608

8.44

2.2

4.80

2.58

0.56

0.15

0.54

4

M.hapla

53.0

27.4

671

12.7

2.0

4.13

5.04

2.55

0.15

0.79

4

H.sapiens a

2994.6

40.9

12036

4.0

0.30

1.89

1.74

0.38

0.01

0a

141

M.musculus

2790.9

41.9

28746

10.3

0.30

8.47

1.57

0.23

0.01

0.02

271

R.norvegicus

2902.6

42.0

26799

9.2

0.29

7.23

1.80

0.18

0.01

0.02

114

  1. aAlpha satellites have been excluded, as explained in the text