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Table 2 Comparison of repeat landscape in tammar and other mammals

From: Genome sequence of an Australian kangaroo, Macropus eugenii, provides insight into the evolution of mammalian reproduction and development

 

Tammar

Opossum

Platypus

Human

Mouse

Total assembly size (Gb)

2.7

3.48

2.3

2.88

2.55

Interspersed repeats (%)

     

   Total

52.8

52.2

44.6

45.5

40.9

   LINE/non-LTR retroelements

28.6

29.2

21.0

20.0

19.6

   SINE

11.7

10.4

22.4

12.6

7.2

   ERV

3.9

10.6

0.47

8.1

9.8

   DNA transposon

2.9

1.7

1.1

2.8

0.8

C+G (%)

38.8

37.7

45.5

40.9

41.8

CpG (%)

3.5

2.3

NA

3.7

3.9

  1. Comparative analyses of the interspersed repeat content in the tammar and other sequenced mammalian genomes. Repeat modeller combined dataset includes ab initio annotation of de novo repeats. ERV, endogenous retroviral element; LTR, long terminal repeat; NA, not available.
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Genome Biology

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