The following sequences were identified as major repeats in the chicken genome:
| Name | Size [bp] |
Description |
| Birddawg_full_chr01-1 | 5838 |
full-length gypsy LTR retrotansposon |
| Birddawg_LTR-A | 338 |
gypsy solo-LTR |
| Birddawg_LTR-B | 296 |
gypsy solo-LTR |
| Birddawg_LTR-C | 306 |
gypsy solo-LTR |
| Birddawg_LTR-D | 329 |
gypsy solo-LTR |
| Birddawg_LTR-E | 338 |
gypsy solo-LTR |
| Birddawg_LTR-G | 307 |
gypsy solo-LTR |
| Charlie_Galluhop_fusion | 1229 |
fusion of 2 class 2 elements |
| CR1_B_mother_chr03 | 4081 |
full-length CR1 element |
| CR1_F_chr01_copy | 6061 |
full-length CR1 element |
| CR1_F_mother_chr06 | 5441 |
full-length CR1 element |
| Galluhop_consensus | 338 |
mariner non-autonomous deletion derivative |
| Galluhop_mother-203 | 1312 |
degenerated full-length mariner element |
| Galluhop_mother-241 | 1167 |
degenerated full-length mariner element |
| Galluhop_mother-248 | 1300 |
degenerated full-length mariner element |
| Galluhop_mother-48 | 1114 |
degenerated full-length mariner element |
| Galluhop_mother-56 | 1334 |
degenerated full-length mariner element |
| Galluhop_mother-82 | 1290 |
degenerated full-length mariner element |
| Galluhop_mother-consens | 1298 |
consensus full-length mariner element |
| Hitchcock_consensus | 543 |
putative solo-LTR |
| Kronos_consensus | 6324 |
full-length gypsy LTR retrotansposon |
| Soprano_full_chr01-1 | 4674 |
full-length LTR retrotansposon |
DNA and hypothetical protein sequences (FASTA files) of these repeats are available for download.
If you use the sequence data provided by this website in your analysis or for a publication, please cite the following paper: Wicker, T., Robertson, J.S., Schulze S.R., Feltus, F.A., Magrini, V., Morrison, J.A., Mardis, E.R., Wilson, R.K., Peterson, D.G., Paterson, A.H. and Ivarie, R. (2004). The Repetitive Landscape of the Chicken Genome. Genome Research, in press. |
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