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For 42 gene copies, we use RT-PCR to compare expression levels in ovaries of females undergoing meiosis or obligate (resting egg) parthenogenesis, in males (i.e. undergoing meiosis) and in female somatic tissue.
Therefore, the number of virtual copies we used (1,000,000) should provide accuracies that are high enough for our evaluation.
To comprehensively search for MULE copies, we used the de novo-identified MULE TIRs and O. sativa MULE TIR to mask the 12 genomes with RepeatMasker.
To avoid artifacts arising from the historical amplification of non-autonomous copies, we used the maximum likelihood method, which takes account of the phylogeny of sequences to infer the ancestral states of the respective THAP domains.
In an effort to identify more highly divergent repeat element copies, we used the element-specific P-cloud approach (Gu et al. 2008; de Koning et al. 2011), with default parameters, to build two sets of oligo clouds: one from all the known TEs we identified, and a second from all the unknown repeats we identified.
To identify terminal inverted repeat (IR) sequences, upstream and downstream sequences of the targeted M. yongonense-specific IS element were analyzed using the Spectral Repeat Finder tool (http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/srf/) with default parameters except for a parameter of 'minimum number of copies' (we used this parameter value with 2, the default value was 5) [ 34].
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To validate our copy number calling at higher copy numbers, we used fibre-FISH on extended DNA fibres from cell lines derived from a parent child trio from the YRI HapMap population.
To quantify the chromosome copy number, we used the Magnolya algorithm, which applies a Poisson mixture model for estimation of the copy number of contigs assembled from sequencing data without mapping the reads to a reference genome (28).
