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Table 3 Length of mRNA and LINEs in mice and rats

From: Frequency of intron loss correlates with processed pseudogene abundance: a novel strategy to test the reverse transcriptase model of intron loss

 

LINE

mRNA

 
 

n

Mean ± SD (kb)

n

Mean ± SD(kb)

P a

Rats

64

1.98 ± 1.52

16,241

2.32 ± 1.73

0.01

Mice

79

1.88 ± 1.37

16,241

3.15 ± 2.35

6 × 10-12

  1. Length of LINEs in mice and rats were obtained from Repbase [78]. aMann-Whitney U test was used to calculate the values of P. kb: kilobase; LINE: long interspersed elements; SD: standard deviation.
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