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Table 3 Transposable elements in Ciona intestinalis

From: The role of transposable elements in the evolution of non-mammalian vertebrates and invertebrates

TE

Total

Intronic

TEs in introns within RefSeq

TEs in introns of non-RefSeq

Exons within RefSeq alignments*

Exons in non-RefSeq alignments†

SINE

51,021

20,360 (39.9%)

826

19,534

0

3

LINE

29,369

11,172 (38%)

493

10,679

0

0

LTR

491

112 (22.8%)

2

110

0

0

DNA

55,300

22,056 (39.9%)

1,025

21,031

0

9

Total

136,181

53,700 (39.4%)

1,851

51,849

0

12

  1. *Number of exons for which their ESTs are found within annotated RefSeq genes.
  2. †Number of exons for which their ESTs are not found within annotated RefSeq genes.