Closed khjia closed 3 years ago
These are most likely intact LTR retrotransposons that carry alternative structural features, ie. LTR region, TSD, motifs, etc. This happens because multiple search tools are used (LTRharvest and LTR_FINDER) and LTR candidates can overlap or duplicated. I opted to retain all qualified candidates if they are slightly different. For your case, the two elements have the same coordinates for the LTR region but different TSDs. You may remove repeat 1862 because the other has a perfect TSD.
The sum file won't overcount these features. The gff3 file is for visualization purposes.
In the final annotation file *EDTA.intact.gff3., a few elements with the same sequence but different id were found, for example: