During our analysis, individual TEs are classified into families based on the 80-80-80 rule proposed by Wicker et al.

That is, two elements belong to the same family if they share 80% (or more) sequence identity in at least 80% of their coding or internal domain, or within their terminal repeat regions, or in both.

Wicker, T., Sabot, F., Hua-Van, A., Bennetzen, J. L., Capy, P., Chalhoub, B., Flavell, A., Leroy, P., Morgante, M., Panaud, O., Paux, E., Sanmiguel, P., & Schulman, A. H. (2007). A unified classification system for eukaryotic transposable elements. Nature Reviews Genetics, 8(12), 973-982.

TE families are nominated with a prefix of TE_. Individual TEs that cannot be classified into a single family were discarded due to their poor representativeness.