Table 2 Repeat content in the genome of O. longistaminata and five selected rice species.

From: Assembling the genome of the African wild rice Oryza longistaminata by exploiting synteny in closely related Oryza species

Species

Genome size (Mb)

Total repeat size (Mb) [% of total sequence]

Retroelements (Mb) [% of total sequence]

DNA transposons (Mb) [% of total sequence]

Oryza longistaminata

350.6

133.9 [38.10%]

53.1 [15.11%]

59.1 [16.83%]

Oryza barthii

308.3

110.3 [36.08%]

49.4 [16.15%]

48 [15.68%]

Oryza brachyantha

260.8

53.3 [21.92%]

18 [7.38%]

31.8 [13.08%]

Oryza glabberima

316.4

117.2 [38.65%]

58 [19.13%]

47.7 [15.71%]

Oryza sativa ssp. indica

427.0

184.5 [44.91%]

106.9 [26.03%]

61.9 [15.08%]

Oryza sativa ssp. japonica

373.2

171.1 [45.87%]

93 [24.93%]

63 [16.88%]

  1. The O. longistaminata genome and five other selected rice species were analyzed by RepeatMasker and values shown were taken directly from the .tbl file. The O. longistaminata genome used here included the unmapped contigs