Table 2. Repetitive elements in the genomes of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, and the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria ( Wang et al., 2014).
| Schistocerca gregaria | Locusta migratoria | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repeat Types | Length (bp) | P% | Length (bp) | P% |
| DNA | 2,390,333,660 | 27.1 | 1,480,538,225 | 22.69 |
| LINE | 2,438,094,307 | 27.6 | 1,332,720,207 | 20.42 |
| SINE | 28,032,199 | 0.32 | 141,176,698 | 2.16 |
| LTR | 637,406,118 | 7.23 | 508,675,263 | 7.80 |
| Other | 165 | 0.00 | 32,017 | 0.00 |
| Unknown | 871,233,596 | 9.88 | 406,097,360 | 6.22 |
| Total | 5,515,243,572 | 62.55 | 3,840,808,141 | 58.86 |
DNA, DNA transposons; LINE, long interspersed nuclear element retrotransposon; SINE, short interspersed nuclear element retrotransposon; LTR, long terminal repeat retrotransposon; Other, repeats classified to other than the above mentioned types; Unknown, repeats that cannot be classified; P%, percentage of the genome.