Table 2.

Transposons in genomes of three Apophysomyces species

Transposons	A. variabilis		A. elegans		A. trapeziformis
	No of base pairs	% in genome	No of base pairs	% in genome	No of base pairs	% in genome
Class I (retro transposons)
Ty3-gypsy	695,311	1.77	268,349	0.7	190,906	0.53
LINE	134,077	0.34	115,891	0.3	70,527	0.21
Ty1-copia	120,547	0.31	49,251	0.13	24,434	0.07
LTR-Roo	114,577	0.29	34,425	0.09	39,791	0.11
Total bases of retro transposons	1,064,512	2.7	467,916	1.2	325,658	0.91
Class II (DNA transposons)
hAT element	291,667	0.74	165,177	0.43	30,059	0.08
Ant1	151,667	0.39	158,969	0.41	57,623	0.16
Mariner	127,820	0.33	137,342	0.36	54,268	0.15
MuDR	123,763	0.31	17,140	0.04	14,817	0.04
Helitron	103,738	0.26	67,336	0.18	52,081	0.15
CACTA elements	70,122	0.18	25,312	0.07	25,933	0.07
ISC1316	48,806	0.12	12,292	0.03	18,902	0.05
DDE transposon	30,481	0.08	29,761	0.08	3383	0.01
Crypton	–		1037	0.002	–
P element	–		161	0.0004	–
Total bases of DNA transposons	948,064	2.4	614,527	1.6	257,066	0.72
Total number of transposon bases in genomes	2,012,576	5.1	1,082,443	2.8	582,724	1.63