Table 2.
Comparison of repeat landscape in tammar and other mammals
| Tammar | Opossum | Platypus | Human | Mouse | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assembly size (Gb) | 2.7 | 3.48 | 2.3 | 2.88 | 2.55 |
| Interspersed repeats (%) | |||||
| Total | 52.8 | 52.2 | 44.6 | 45.5 | 40.9 |
| LINE/non-LTR retroelements | 28.6 | 29.2 | 21.0 | 20.0 | 19.6 |
| SINE | 11.7 | 10.4 | 22.4 | 12.6 | 7.2 |
| ERV | 3.9 | 10.6 | 0.47 | 8.1 | 9.8 |
| DNA transposon | 2.9 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 0.8 |
| C+G (%) | 38.8 | 37.7 | 45.5 | 40.9 | 41.8 |
| CpG (%) | 3.5 | 2.3 | NA | 3.7 | 3.9 |
Comparative analyses of the interspersed repeat content in the tammar and other sequenced mammalian genomes. Repeat modeller combined dataset includes ab initio annotation of de novo repeats. ERV, endogenous retroviral element; LTR, long terminal repeat; NA, not available.