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Table 5 Transposable elements in Caenorhabditis elegans

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

524

243 (46%)

230

13

0

0

LINE

428

103 (24%)

90

13

0

0

LTR

606

137 (22%)

126

11

0

0

DNA

32,977

17,724 (53%)

17,175

549

4

0

Total

34,535

18,207 (53%)

17,621

586

4

0

  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.