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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 22.
Published in final edited form as: Cell Mol Life Sci. 2008 Nov;65(21):3383–3398. doi: 10.1007/s00018-008-8497-0

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Fossils of transposable elements make up a large proportion of the mouse genome. The percentage of the mouse genome sequences that are derived from one of two types of transposable elements (DNA transposons and retrotransposons) is shown. The retrotransposons are further divided into non-LTR and LTR retrotransposons. LTR retrotransposons in the mouse belong to the ERV superfamily, which is made up of three families. Arrows and fill colors denote potential evolutionary relationships and/or recombination events. Abbreviations used in the figure are defined in the text, with the exception of APE (apurinic endonuclease), found in LINE elements. The figure is adapted from [10] and [5].