The protist Trichomonas vaginalis harbors multiple lineages of transcriptionally active Mutator-like elements

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Table 1 Characteristics of 4 Mutator- like families in the T. vaginalis genome

Family	Lenght^a (bp)	TIRsb (bp)	ORFc (aa)	First TE hit in BlastP searches against Genbank
				Description^d	e value	% ID^e	% Similarity^f	Length^g (aa)
TvMULE1	2,127	31	629	11994228 Arabidopsis thaliana Mutator	1e-09	27	43	283
TvMULE2	2,540	20	489	68466572 Candida albicans Mutator	3e-03	24	44	166
TvMULE3	2,954	30	557	68474652 Candida albicans Mutator	3e-09	23	40	309
TvMULE4	2,410	38	459	68474652 Candida albicans Mutator	9e-12	25	43	235

^a Length of consensus sequence, excepting TvMULE2 in which a canonical copy was characterized;
^b Putative imperfect terminal inverted repeats;
^c Length of the protein encoded by T. vaginalis TE, in amino acids (aa);
^d GenBank accession number, species, TE name;
^e Percent identity between T. vaginalis TE-encoded protein and hit in BlastP alignment;
^f Percent similarity between T. vaginalis TE-encoded protein and hit in BlastP alignment;
^g Length of query in the alignment produced by BlastP, in amino acids.

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