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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2016 Aug 12;76:118–147. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2016.07.005

Table 1.

Summary of transposable elements found in the M. sexta genome.

Class Superfamily Number of subfamilies
RNA retroelements 83
LINE 67
LTR 4
SINE 12
DNA transposons 42
Helitron 6
TIR 36
Unknown 543