<i>TRIM5</i> and <i>TRIM22</i> contain more transposable elements than <i>TRIM6</i> or <i>TRIM34</i>.

<p>The absolute number of transposable elements present in each TRIM gene was tallied for each species and the results are depicted in panel (A). Black dots represent the number of transposable elements found in a given primate species and the black bar represents the mean value. The quantitation shown in (A) was performed without regard for identity or conservation of the elements present, therefore the number of novel transposable elements was considered. In panel (B), the number of unique transposable elements present in pairwise comparisons of each TRIM gene is shown. The black dots indicate number of elements in an individual pairwise sequence comparison and the black bar represents the mean value. In panels (A) and (B), statistical significance was calculated using the Friedman test, a one-way repeated measures ANOVA without assuming Gaussian distributions and using the Dunn’s post-test to compare all genes against one another. A p-value of less than 0.05 is denoted by *, a p-value less than 0.01 is denoted by **, a p-value less than 0.001 is denoted by ***. Correlations between average indel size and the number of unique transposable elements were examined <i>TRIM6</i> (C), <i>TRIM34</i> (D), <i>TRIM22</i> (E), and <i>TRIM5</i> (F). Statistical significance was assessed using Spearman’s rank correlation the r and p-values resulting from this analysis are indicated in each panel. Comparisons involving colobus <i>TRIM6</i>, which contains a 6-kb LINE L1 element insertion, are indicated with red dots.