Table 5.

Repeat content in Antarctic midges

	P. steinenii		B. antarctica
	Total	Number	Total	Number
	coverage (bp)	of sequences	coverage (bp)	of sequences
Low complexity	404,490	8661	290,095	8812
Simple repeats	1,105,449	26,336	40,475	1066
Transposon elements
Class I/LTR	289,059	1075	945	13
Class I/Non-LTR	169,298	675	18,003	271
Class II/DNA elements	216,807	649	5247	83
Small RNA	67,503	111	6425	13
Totals	2,252,606	37,507	361,370	10,258

LTR long terminal repeat