Table 2.

Summary of the main properties of oyster satellitomes

Species	Number of satellite DNAs	Monomer length range (bp)	Genome proportion (%)		Satellitome proportion (%)	Number of satDNA showing similarity to TE	Repbase similarities for satDNAs
			Range	Total	Range		DNA/Helitron	other DNA transposons	Retrotransposons	Multiple TEs	Other
C. angulata	62	28–8637	0.01–0.72	7.70	0.13–9.32	39	15	13	4	5	4
C. virginica	33	39–2748	0.01–0.58	2.92	0.30–19.78	15	5	6	0	4	1
C.hongkongensis	56	34–2421	0.01–0.98	7.14	0.14–13.65	22	14	7	0	1	1
C. ariakensis	51	42–2823	0.01–1.15	8.21	0.12–14.01	29	14	12	2	1	3
O. edulis	52	23–16,346	0.01–1.30	6.70	0.18–19.48	18	11	4	1	2	0
C. gigas*	52	21–3287	0.01–0.72	6.33	0.16–11.29	38	16	16	6	0	2

*Data from Tunjić-Cvitanić et al. (2021), added for comparison