So many Plantae and so little Animalia

[xiekunwhy]

Hi,

I found that there are many Plantae sequences and just a little Animalia sequences in TransposonDB.fasta, is that normal?

grep ">" TransposonDB.fasta|wc -l
891052

grep ">" TransposonDB.fasta| grep -i Plantae|wc -l
865297

grep ">" TransposonDB.fasta|grep Animalia|wc -l
21875

Best,
Kun

[DerKevinRiehl]

Dear xiekunwhy,
please read our paper if you have questions about the TransposonDB.
https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/50/11/e64/6541023?login=false

TransposonDB is a collection of known transposon sequences from many different databases.
Currently there are more plant genome transposons known than animalia transposons.

I hope this answers your question :)?

Best,
Kevin