Exploration of the Drosophila buzzatii transposable element content suggests underestimation of repeats in Drosophila genomes

Table 2 TE fraction in D. buzzatii and D. mojavensis computed in 50 kb non-overlapping windows^a

Chr	Species	Proximal		Cent+Dist		Total
		TE (%)	N	TE (%)	N	TE (%)	N
X	D. buzzatii	16.13	57	7.44	505	8.32	562
	D. mojavensis	42.24	59	8.71	579	11.81	638
2	D. buzzatii	13.91	59	4.77	638	5.54	697
	D. mojavensis	38.68	60	5.11	622	8.06	682
3	D. buzzatii	12.96	58	4.12	522	5.01	580
	D. mojavensis	60.52	60	5.60	586	10.70	646
4	D. buzzatii	12.50	58	3.77	434	4.80	492
	D. mojavensis	39.24	60	4.31	486	8.14	546
5	D. buzzatii	14.98	58	4.06	462	5.87	520
	D. mojavensis	21.47	60	4.11	476	6.06	536
6	D. buzzatii	41.22	28	-	-	41.22	28
	D. mojavensis	50.65	60	14.22	8	46.30	68
Total	D. buzzatii	16.51	318	4.87	2561	5.86	2879
	D. mojavensis	42.13	359	5.68	2757	8.87	3116

^aProximal regions corresponds to the 3 most proximal Mb; Central+ Distal to the rest of the chromosome and Total to both parts. N stands for number of windows. Only mapped and oriented scaffolds are present, N90 for D. buzzatii, and N80 for D. mojavensis

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