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Table 1 Diversity of TEs in selected species

From: Families of transposable elements, population structure and the origin of species

Species

No. Families

< 1% divergent

No. Families

< 5% divergent

Danio rerio

124

217

Mammals (range)

0-23

5-113

Xenopus tropicalis

26

91

Anopheles gambiae

50

115

Aedes aegypti

561

1093

Drosophila melanogaster

19

49

Arabidopsis thaliana

52

199

Zea mays

149

265

Selaginella moellendorffii

11

24

Physcomitrella patens

4

8

  1. Diversity of TEs is defined as the number of different families per genome. DNA sequence divergence for individual families is defined as a percentage of base substitutions either relative to their consensus sequences or between LTRs in the case of LTR retrotransposon families.