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Table 1 Copy numbers of reverse transcriptases and retrotransposons

From: Evaluation of the mechanisms of intron loss and gain in the social amoebae Dictyostelium

 

Reverse transcriptases

Retrotransposons

  

LINEs

SINEs

LTR elements

Dictyostelium discoideum

3,402

252

88

3

Dictyostelium purpureum

48

93

57

0

  1. LINEs, long interspersed nuclear elements; SINEs, short interspersed nuclear elements; LTR, long terminal repeat. All retrotransposons were detected using RepeatMasker (version open-4.0.0, default mode, and RepBase update 20140131, RM database version 20140131)
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BMC Ecology and Evolution

ISSN: 2730-7182

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