Table 1. Distribution of repetitive DNA in rice and various GSSs of maize as percent of genome.

Details	Total BES	HindIII BES	EcoRI BES	MboI BES	UF	MF	HC	RescueMu	Rice
Total no. of sequences	474,604	309,560	78,313	86,731	50,876	30,000	30,000	30,000	179
Total no. of base pairs	307,169,410	206,221,247	46,673,217	54,274,946	37,621,118	21,649,324	21,637,862	10,074,088	35,800,000
Percent of genome, %	12.99	8.72	1.97	2.29	1.59	0.92	0.91	0.43	8.33
Class I retroelements, %	55.60	58.39	46.77	52.58	57.73	15.70	6.55	4.91	19.28
Ty1/copia-like elements, %	24.54	25.33	20.54	24.97	17.50	8.37	2.54	1.98	3.67
Ty3/gypsy-like elements, %	21.43	23.39	15.69	18.94	31.25	4.32	2.22	1.71	8.90
LINES + SINES, %	0.18	0.23	0.06	0.06	0.04	0.06	0.18	0.13	0.96
Other retroelements, %	9.45	9.44	10.48	8.61	8.94	2.95	1.62	1.09	5.74
Class II DNA transposons, %	0.98	0.94	1.16	0.98	0.92	1.14	1.58	4.84	10.35
hAT superfamily, %	0.03	0.02	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.09	0.11	0.37
CACTA superfamily, %	0.32	0.31	0.38	0.30	0.21	0.21	0.17	0.76	2.83
Mutator, %	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.05	0.05	0.36	0.51
MITEs, %	0.17	0.16	0.20	0.17	0.19	0.39	0.62	1.08	3.96
Other DNA transposons, %	0.45	0.42	0.54	0.48	0.48	0.44	0.65	2.53	2.67
Simple repeats, %	0.40	0.27	0.47	0.83	1.66	1.27	0.19	0.17	1.03
High-copy-number genes, %	0.82	0.12	1.13	3.17	1.95	0.17	0.19	0.15	0.06
Other repeats, %	0.12	0.11	0.12	0.16	0.30	0.09	0.06	0.05	0.43
Total repeats, %	57.91	59.82	49.65	57.72	62.55	18.38	8.57	10.13	31.14

Greater than 70% identity limit. UF, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) unfiltered; MF, TIGR MF; HC, TIGR high C₀t; RescueMu, MaizeDB RescueMu; MITE, miniature inverted-repeat TE; LINE, long interspersed nuclear element; SINE, short interspersed nuclear element. Data for Rice comprise 179 pseudo BACs, i.e., 200 kb cut equally from all 12 chromosomes.