Table 5.
Matching of RescueMu genomic loci to other available databases to determine percentage of genic and repeat loci
| Category | Number of genomic loci |
| Total maize genomic loci discovered | 14,265* |
| Number of genic loci identified by: | |
| Maize EST/cDNA | 7,555 |
| Plant EST/cDNA | 1,253 |
| Protein database | 84 (62%) |
| GENSCAN prediction | 708 |
| Number of genic loci† (percentage of total) | 9,600 (67.3%) |
| Number of loci matching repeats: | |
| Retrotransposon | 1,074 |
| DNA transposon | 212 |
| MITEs | 193 |
| Centromere-related repeats | 57 |
| Telomere-related repeats | 3 |
| Unknown repeats | 221 |
| Other repeats | 8 |
| 45S ribosomal DNA (18S + 28S) | 23 |
| 5S ribosomal DNA | 10 |
| Transfer DNA | 25 |
| Number of repeat loci‡ (percentage of total) | 1,113 (8%) |
*The 14,887 unique loci were collapsed into 14,265 unique loci by linking forward/reverse sequence pairs. This provides a more conservative estimate, but in some cases may have incorrectly combined separate loci. †Numbers are cumulative: that is, GSSs were first matched to maize EST/cDNAs, then the unmatched GSSs were screened against other plant EST/cDNAs, and so on. ‡Numbers are not cumulative: that is, some loci could match to both retrotransposon and DNA transposon sequences.