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Table 2 ITS age

From: Contribution of telomerase RNA retrotranscription to DNA double-strand break repair during mammalian genome evolution

 

Number of ITS (%)

ITS type

Human

Chimpanzee

Mouse

Rat

Conserved ITS loci (old)

75 (90.4)

75 (94.9)

58 (23.8)

58 (23.2)

Species-specific ITS loci (young)

5 (6.0)

4 (5.1)

58 (23.8)

72 (28.8)

Not informative ITS loci*

3 (3.6)

0 (0)

128 (52.5)

120 (48.0)

Total

83

79

244

250

  1. *ITS loci for which the orthologous loci were not found or were grossly rearranged.