Table 2.

Number and coverage of transposable elements in E. histolytica, E. dispar and E. invadens

name	completea	incompletea	coverage (bp)	coverage (%)b
Eh_LINE1	88	654	1079630	5.2%
Eh_LINE2	73	442	759971	3.7%
Eh_LINE3	10	87	160940	0.8%
Eh_SINE1	264	181	187972	0.9%
Eh_SINE2	94	162	108195	0.5%
Eh_SINE3	9	40	18851	0.1%
Eh_ERE1	0	777	1014754	4.9%
Eh_ERE2	71	728	733987	3.5%
Eh_MuDR	0	4	2851	< 0.1%
Eh_mariner	0	1	1008	< 0.1%
Eh_TOTAL	609	3047	4068159	19.7%
Ed_LINE1	63	510	839108	3.7%
Ed_LINE2	28	449	506244	2.2%
Ed_LINE3	2	42	46734	0.2%
Ed_SINE1	282	143	208941	0.9%
Ed_SINE2	53	136	73091	0.3%
Ed_SINE3	2	16	2497	< 0.1%
Ed_ERE1	51	536	526451	2.3%
Ed_MuDR	0	4	2075	< 0.1%
Ed_mariner	0	1	1011	< 0.1%
Ed_TOTAL	481	1837	2206152	9.7%
Ei_LINE	2	67	59,308	0.1%
Ei_ERE1	30	227	170,510	0.4%
Ei_DDE	328	2607	1,678,976	4.1%
Ei_mariner	390	1400	822,878	2.0%
Ei_hAT	35	755	464,161	1.1%
Ei_MuDR	49	831	522,116	1.3%
Ei_Polinton	5	126	336,005	0.8%
Ei_piggyBac	14	32	27,894	0.1%
Ei_TOTAL	677	6082	4033163	9.9%

^a Repeats were considered complete when their length was at least 90% of the consensus sequence.

^b Expressed as percentage of the corresponding genome length.