Table 2.

Conservation in target sequences and terminal inverted repeats between MITEs and autonomous DNA transposons in diverse organisms

Element	Target	TIR*	Size
Ac†	8-bp	CAGGGaTGaaaA	4560
8bp-I-Ag‡	NTTTANAN	CAGGGGTcTCCAAaCt	320
MER30§	NTYTANAN	CAGGGGTGTCCAAtC	230
pogo¶	TA	CAGTA-TaattCGcTTAgCTGctcga	2121
Tsessebe I‡	TA	CAGTA-TcgaCaGaaWgataG	2055
TA-IV-Ag‡	TA	CAGTAGgtgaCCGcTaA-CTGGt	363
Mimo‖	TA	CAGTAGTtgttCGgTaA-CTGGGc	324
TA-IIα-Ag‡	TA	CAGTgGagCgCCGtTTATCcaGGt	358
TA-IIβ-Ag‡	TA	CAGTAGaaCgtCGaTTATCcGGG	379
MER44A§	TA	CAGTAGTcCcCCc-TTATCcGcGg	333
TA-V-Ag‡	TA	CAGTgaacCctCtcTTATtTGa	348

^*Consensus of each family is used in the comparison. Uppercase letters indicate nucleotides that are the same as the majority in the group. Lowercase letters indicate nucleotides that are different from the majority. 

^† Ac is a maize autonomous DNA transposon of the hAT superfamily (19). 

^‡ 8bp-I-Ag, TA-IIα-Ag, TA-IIβ-Ag, TA-IV-Ag, and TA-V-Ag are A. gambiae MITEs reported in this paper. Tsessebe I is a Tcl-pogo DNA transposon in A. gambiae (21). 

^§ MER30 and MER44A are MITEs found in man (10). 

^¶ pogo is a DNA transposon in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster (38). 

^‖ Mimo is a MITE in a mosquito Culex pipiens (16).