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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Nov 17.
Published in final edited form as: Science. 2007 Jan 12;315(5809):207–212. doi: 10.1126/science.1132894

Table 2.

Summary of highly repetitive sequences in the genome of T. vaginalis. The 31 unclassified repeat families have been collapsed into one group.

Repeat name Putative identity Copy no. Length (bp) Cumulative length (bp) Average pairwise difference (%)
Viral
R128b Poxvirus D5 protein 203 2348 370,658 1.2
R169a Phage tail fiber prot 903 752 607,929 3.9
R1794 Hypothetical 2243 1037 1,879,762 3.0
R299a KilA-N terminal domain 867 873 655,984 6.6
R3a Poxvirus D5 protein 954 2637 1,721,187 4.6
R9a KilA-N terminal domain 831 663 503,959 3.6
R947a KilA-N terminal domain 518 669 298,778 3.1
Average (total) 931 1283 (6,038,257) 3.7
Transposon
R8 Mariner transposase 982 1304 1,158,473 0.5
R107 Integrase 384 2246 518,936 0.9
R119 Mutator-like profile 282 2954 303,256 1.1
R11b Integrase 1842 981 1,634,764 2.1
R128a HNH endonuclease 200 800 131,491 1.5
R130a Mutator-like profile 173 1129 137,526 0.7
R165 Mutator-like profile 365 2410 368,152 1.1
R178 Integrase 580 2433 636,901 1.5
R204 Integrase 51 1323 51,185 1.6
R210 Mutator-like profile 75 2127 118,581 0.9
R2375 Endonuclease 566 765 329,717 5.4
R242b Integrase 49 1151 45,564 2.5
R26b Integrase 1148 1141 1,175,921 2.6
R289a Integrase 54 1250 53,674 2.2
R309b Integrase 56 1601 73,737 1.4
R414a Integrase 37 909 27,708 1.4
R41b Integrase 927 1184 807,711 2.5
R473 Integrase 19 1124 15,254 1.3
Integ.a95313 Integrase 68 1301 22,023 2.3
Average (total) 414 1481 (7,610,574) 1.8
Retrotransposon
R1407.RT Reverse transcriptase 6 2349 6,833 1.0
copia.a38393 Copia-like profile 7 11001 16,504 7.5
Average (total) 6.5 6675 (23,337) 4.3
31 unclassified families
Average (total) 793 1131 (24,617,704) 2.6
Total all 38,289,872
Average all 660 1450 2.5