LARGE OCCUPANCY. “Due to this degeneracy, estimates of the proportion of the human genome occupied by TEs has varied widely, between one-half and two-thirds. Larger genomes, such as those of salamanders and lungfishes, almost certainly contain an even more enormous quantity of transposable element DNA.” (TE = transposable elements).
http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004351
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022