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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2022 Nov 23;14(2):102090. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.102090

Table 3:

Transposable elements identified in by RepeatMasker the Amblyomma maculatum genome. Total genome size scanned = 2,350,858,905 bases.

Element family Number of elements Base Pairs Percentage of Genome
Retroelements 667,681 227,801,712 9.24%
 SINEs: 189,995 30,535,656 1.24%
 Penelope 9,123 923,733 0.04%
 LINEs: 306,569 111,282,227 4.51%
 CRE/SLACS 7 415 0.00%
 L2/CR1/Rex 92,277 13,151,584 0.53%
 R1/LOA/Jockey 44,875 7,279,321 0.30%
 R2/R4/NeSL 3,298 305,707 0.01%
 RTE/Bov-B 127,837 87,675,663 3.56%
 L1/CIN4 1,891 100,605 0.00%
LTR elements: 171,117 85,983,829 3.49%
 BEL/Pao 10,454 1,214,535 0.05%
 Ty1/Copia 5,007 265,943 0.01%
 Gypsy/DIRS1 154,051 84,423,689 3.42%
 Retroviral 0 0 0.00%
Total Class I elements 838,798 313,785,541
DNA transposons 82,533 6,360,904 0.26%
 hobo-Activator 8,996 630,064 0.03%
 Tc1-IS630-Pogo 36,962 3,489,969 0.14%
 En-Spm 0 0 0.00%
 MuDR-IS905 0 0 0.00%
 PiggyBac 922 115,270 0.00%
 Tourist/Harbinger 945 118,864 0.00%
 Other (Mirage, P-element, Transib) 2,924 179,953 0.01%
Rolling-circles 11,361 683,173 0.03%
Unclassified: 5,696 432,101 0.02%
Total interspersed repeats 234,594,717 9.51%
Small RNA: 190,873 30,766,714 1.25%
Satellites: 1,573 135,324 0.01%
Simple repeats: 0 0 0.00%
Low complexity: 0 0 0.00%
Total 1,323,280 617,660,512 25.07
*

most repeats fragmented by insertions or deletions have been counted as one element

The query species was assumed to be arthropoda

RepeatMasker version 4.1.2-p1, sensitive mode