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. 2015 Jul 24;10(7):e0133647. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133647

Table 1. The contribution of repeat elements to nuclear genomes in 17 mammalian species.

Species Genome assembly Total size (in nucleotides) Repeat coverage (in nucleotides) Percentage of genome covered by repeat elements
Human GRCh37.p5-Primary Assembly 3,101,788,170 1,441,122,130 46.46
Mouse GRCm38-C57BL/6J 2,730,855,475 1,186,206,269 43.44
Rat Rnor_5.0-Primary Assembly 2,573,362,844 1,103,002,536 42.86
Cow Btau_4.6.1-Primary Assembly 2,649,685,036 1,347,191,424 50.84
Chimpanzee Pan_troglodytes-2.1.4-Primary Assembly 2,995,917,117 1,458,594,710 48.69
Rabbit OryCun2.0-Primary Assembly 2,604,023,284 1,115,709,440 42.85
Dog CanFam3.1-Primary Assembly 2,392,715,236 1,004,202,711 41.97
Elephant Loxafr3.0-Primary Assembly 3,118,565,340 1,456,307,490 46.70
Gibbon Nleu_3.0-Primary Assembly 2,756,591,777 1,392,833,579 50.53
Gorilla gorGor3.1-Primary Assembly 2,828,888,833 1,344,286,159 47.52
Horse EquCab2.0-Primary Assembly 2,428,790,173 1,046,969,418 43.11
Monkey Mmul_051212-Primary Assembly 3,093,871,206 1,466,974,355 47.42
Marmoset Callithrix jacchus-3.2-Primary Assembly 2,759,289,125 1,301,711,202 47.18
Opposum MonDom5-Primary Assembly 3,501,660,299 1,951,703,622 55.74
Orangutan P_pygmaeus_2.0.2-Primary Assembly 3,109,347,532 1,563,466,038 50.28
Pig Sscrofa10.2-Primary Assembly 3,024,658,544 1,040,672,576 34.41
Platypus Ornithorhynchus_anatinus-5.0.1-Primary Assembly 1,917,748,604 889,518,843 46.38