Table 3.
Analysis of Repetitive Elements in Dystrophin Intron Sequences
| Organism | Total intron length (kb) | Repeat % | ||||
| simple | species-specific | mammalian | matching | total | ||
| C. elegans | 20 | 5.44 | 10.62 | — | — | 16.06 |
| D. melanogaster | 120 | 2.31 | 0.23 | — | — | 2.54 |
| F. rubripes | 154 | 1.87 | 1.65 | — | — | 3.52 |
| M. musculus | 2,245 | 2.37 | 26.46 | 6.94 | 0.27 | 36.04 |
| H. sapiens | 2,144 | 1.04 | 25.41 | 10.59 | 0.39 | 37.43 |
Simple, simple repeats and low complexity DNA; species-specific, repeated elements specific for either the human or mouse genome; mammalian, mammalian-wide repeated elements; matching, mammalian-wide intersepersed repeats matching in global human–mouse genomic alignments.