An improved genome assembly uncovers prolific tandem repeats in Atlantic cod

BMC Genomics

Table 4 The repeat content of of the Atlantic cod genome assembly

Repeat	Number	Coverage (Mbp)	Coverage^a (%)
	of elements
LINEs	64 344	18.4	2.86
LTR elements	81 087	22.3	3.47
DNA elements	269 835	46.5	7.23
Unclassified	215 676	59.2	9.21
Total interspersed repeats^b	636 132	147.1	22.86
Tandem repeats	582 198	51.2	7.96

^aGroups of elements covering less than 1% of the genome assembly are not shown
^bThis is the sum of all annotated interspersed repeats, including the first four rows plus SINEs

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