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. 2021 Feb 11;4:186. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01716-y

Fig. 2. Relationship between TEs and SSR expansion.

Fig. 2

a Age distribution of major expanded TEs in the two penaeid shrimp genomes. According to previous studies57, the substitution rate of decapods is 2 × 10−9 substitutions per site per year. b Percentage of TEs harboring SSRs in the two shrimp genomes. The SSRs located within TEs (hide bar) and 100 bp up- and downstream of TEs (orange and green bars) were counted separately. *Indicates significant difference (p < 0.05) of the TEs harboring SSRs between L. vannamei and F. chinensis. c Comparison of ancient and recent TEs that carrying SSRs. d Distribution of the number of TEs containing variable lengths of SSRs. Two peaks representing short and long SSRs were identified in the curve plot. e Comparison of TEs containg short and long SSRs. The stars indicate the significant differences with p < 0.05. The short and long SSRs were selected according to a curve plot of the numbers of TEs with different SSR lengths (Supplementary Fig. 19). Since a single peak (representing short SSRs) was observed in the length distribution of (AAT)n, long (AAT)n SSRs were considered those with lengths longer than 35 bp. f Comparison of SSR density in various TEs of F. chinensis and L. vannamei. A positive value of log2(DensityFch/DensityLva) indicates that the SSR density in correspondent TE was higher in F. chinensis than L. vannamei, and verse versa. g Synteny of recently transposed TEs (Penelope). SSR elongations and new insertions (green circle) were identified in the transposed TEs.