Transcribed Tc1-like transposons in salmonid fish

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Transcribed vertebrate transposons¹.

Species	Sequences	Transposons	Tc1-like
Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)	50773	273 (0.538)	188
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)	31341	163 (0.52)	110
Medaka (Oryzias latipes)	26689	59 (0.221)	8
Zebrafish (Danio rerio)	93442	194 (0.208)	84
Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus)	15538	3 (0.019)	3
Pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes)	11112	11 (0.099)	1
African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis)	77599	164 (0.211)	53
Chicken (Gallus gallus)	116777	20 (0.017)	0
Rat (Rattus norvegicus)	147056	310 (0.211)	0

¹Unique cDNA sequences from TIGR Gene Indexes were searched across 262 metazoan transposons from Swissprot and 11 Tc1-like transposases using blastx at a cutoff value of e < 10^-20. Percentages for all cDNA sequences are in parentheses.

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