Table 6. Repetitive element content of intergenic lncRNA candidates by class.
| miRNA | shRNA | siRNA | lncRNA | |
| Sequences | 16 | 177 | 720 | 439 |
| Total length (bp)* | 25993 | 258071 | 928982 | 434240 |
| GC level | 46.84% | 51.6% | 50.73% | 51.39% |
| Bases masked(% of total) | 2065 (7.94%) | 88239 (34.19%) | 117546 (12.65%) | 16876 (3.89%) |
| # elements (bases masked) | # elements (bases masked) | # elements (bases masked) | # elements (bases masked) | |
| SINEs | 0 (0) | 1 (96) | 2 (125) | 2 (241) |
| LINEs | 2 (204) | 3 (344) | 25 (9950) | 9 (1377) |
| LTRs | 4 (1325) | 124 (70873) | 174 (70266) | 23 (5325) |
| DNA transposons | 2 (350) | 43 (10507) | 115 (25314) | 18 (3739) |
| Unclassified | 0 (0) | 12 (1016) | 21 (5302) | 9 (995) |
| Small RNA | 0 (0) | 5 (3431) | 2 (125) | 2 (241) |
| Satellites | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 10 (1453) | 2 (156) |
| Simple repeats | 5 (186) | 23 (1088) | 78 (4041) | 57 (2410) |
| Low complexity | 0 (0) | 29 (980) | 82 (3218) | 78 (2633) |
| Bases masked (% of total) | Bases masked (% of total) | Bases masked (% of total) | Bases masked (% of total) | |
| Total interspersedrepeats | 1879 (7.23%) | 82836 (32.1%) | 110957 (11.9%) | 11677 (2.7%) |
*
Total length, in base pairs, of all sequences analyzed.