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Figure 5

From: Billions of basepairs of recently expanded, repetitive sequences are eliminated from the somatic genome during copepod development

Figure 5

Maximum likelihood estimates of the relative frequencies of known repeat superfamilies in soma and germline. 95% confidence intervals are shown. Elements that exist at higher frequencies in the germline than in the soma (e.g. DNA-hAT, DNA-MuDR, LINE-L1) are disproportionately excised from the somatic genome during chromatin diminution. Elements that exist at higher frequency in the soma (e.g. LINE-CR1, LTR-ERV1, LTR-Gypsy) are disproportionately retained in the somatic genome.

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BMC Genomics

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