Fig. 1

TE composition of the three wheat subgenomes and examples of chromosomal distributions. a Stacked histograms representing the contribution of each TE superfamily to the three subgenomes. Un-annotated sequences are depicted in white and coding exons (accounting only the representative transcript per gene) in orange. b Distribution of TE subfamilies along wheat chromosome 1A (as a representative of all chromosomes). The full datasets are shown in Additional file 1: Figures S1–S11. The TE distribution is shown in 30-Mb windows along chromosomes. TE abundance per 30-Mb window is shown as a heat-map and as a bar plot. The x-axis indicates the physical position in Mb, while the y-axis indicates the number of kb the TE family contributes to each 30 Mb. The total contribution in Mb of the respective TE family to the chromosome is depicted at the left