The role of transposable element clusters in genome evolution and loss of synteny in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Table 1 Transposable element content of chromosome 7

Transposable element	Number of elements*	Total bp length (% of chromosome sequence)
Class I (retrotransposons)
LTRs
MAGGY	34	89,157 (2.23%)
Pyret	79	97,918 (2.45%)
RETRO5	33	58,888 (1.47%)
RETRO6	14	30,831 (0.77%)
RETRO7	30	47,867 (1.20%)
MGLR3	19	10,967 (0.27%)
LINEs
MGL	32	90,563 (2.27%)
SINEs
MG-SINE	18	8,200 (0.21%)
Ch-SINE	2	1,319 (0.03%)
Class II (DNA transposons)
Pot2	48	71,240 (1.78%)
Pot3	21	26,761 (0.67%)
Occan	10	16,541 (0.41%)
Miscellaneous or unclassified elements
5SrRNA	5	595 (0.01%)
MGSR2	8	8,315 (0.21%)

*Includes full-length elements as well as fragments. LINE, long Interspersed repeat element; SINE, short interspersed repeat element.

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