Figure 1

Schematic representation of the 8.45 kb RLC-Angela-FJ434420 retroelement with indicated microsatellite sites, with computed similarity in red and linguistic complexity in blue, calculated as percentage values over a 50 bp window from 11 full-length Medicago truncatula homologues (above) and the 1.3 kb LTR region of 63 sequences from 30 legume species (below). Long terminal repeat (LTR) region harboring simple sequence repeat (SSR), primer-binding site (PBS), polypurine tract (PPT) and protein domains of gag-pol, putative capsid protein (GAG), aspartic proteinase (AP), IN—integrase, reverse transcriptase (RT), RNAseH (RH), are shown. A full colour version of this figure is available at the Heredity journal online.