Mick and Ted Skolnick's entry is a rotating head on which the hair continually grows and recedes, a spoof of screen savers' repetitive content.
When helping to judge the Britten competition, for instance, I have seen scores that were beautifully presented but impoverished in their regurgitated and repetitive content.
For species with higher repetitive content, the amount of autonomous DNA transposons was higher (Fig. 7a).
Among the tetraploid species, O. coarctata [HHKK] had the lowest repetitive content (44%) compared to others.
Therefore, there must be mechanisms that keep its repetitive content low and genome size under check.
O. brachyantha, with the smallest genome and the least repetitive content had the lowest number of LTR-RT copies (13,602) as compared to O. australiensis (163,145), the largest diploid genome with the highest repetitive content.
We also observed a positive correlation between the amount of autonomous DNA transposons to the repetitive content of the genome.
Slavomir said he gets a lot of "repetitive content" and wants to automate as much of the translation as possible.
The amount of repetitive content of a genome (Table 1) was found to be correlated to its genome size (Pearson's correlation coefficient of 0.9).
The percent autonomous non-MITE DNA transposons was found to be positively correlated with the total repetitive content of the genome with a correlation coefficient of 0.81.
If O. coarctata is excluded from our dataset, the repetitive content of a species is perfectly correlated, with a correlation coefficient of 1.0, to its genome size.
