An automated homology-based approach for identifying transposable elements

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 1 Pediculus humanus humanus Results

Class I	Family	Element	Length (bp)	Full-length Copies	Copies	Density
non-LTR
	SART	Hope-like	4655	1	522	0.18%
	R4	Dong-like	5266	4	1739	0.45%
LTR
	ty3/gypsy	Mdg1	5395	2	976	0.28%
Class II	Family	Element	Length (bp)	Full-length Copies	Copies	Density
	mariner/Tc1	mariner	1276	24	216	0.09%
TOTAL						1.00%

This table shows information for the TEs identified in P. humanus humanus. We identified 4 families of TEs, with full-length copies of each present in the genome. Results were previously reported in Kirkness et al. [35].

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