Table 1.
Repeat content of the bovine genome
| Group | No. | Total bp | Percentage coverage of genome |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bos taurus | Human | Mouse | |||
| Non-LTR retrotransposons (LINE) | |||||
| L1 | 616,259 | 328,664,804 | 11.26352 | 17.07 | 19.14 |
| RTE (BovB) | 376,067 | 313,409,818 | 10.74072 | NA | 0.02 |
| L2 | 132,485 | 34,553,185 | 1.18416 | 3.07 | 0.37 |
| CR1 | 14,524 | 3,083,954 | 0.10569 | 0.27 | 0.06 |
| Total | 1,139,335 | 679,711,761 | 23.29409 | 20.40 | 19.59 |
| SINEs | |||||
| BOV-A2 | 377,697 | 68,880,046 | 2.360556 | NA | NA |
| Bov-tA | 1,461,800 | 225,579,571 | 7.730733 | NA | NA |
| ART2A | 348,768 | 121,997,595 | 4.18092 | NA | NA |
| tRNA | 388,920 | 57,981,206 | 1.98705 | NA | 0.00 |
| MIR | 301,335 | 40,569,445 | 1.39034 | 2.43 | 0.55 |
| Other | 4,322 | 432,334 | 0.01482 | 10.68 | 6.78 |
| Total | 2,882,842 | 515,440,197 | 17.66441 | 13.11 | 7.34 |
| ERVs | 277,632 | 93,363,384 | 3.19961 | 8.56 | 9.84 |
| DNA transposons | 244,174 | 57,157,641 | 1.95882 | 3.00 | 0.89 |
| LTR other | 34,352 | 12,395,410 | 0.42480 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| Interspersed repeat total | 4,578,335 | 1,358,068,393 | 46.54174 | 45.08 | 37.65 |
| SSR total | 5,653,575 | 66,275,552 | 2.27130 | 0.78 | 4.16 |
NA, not applicable. Bold denotes repeat group totals.