They share sequence homology and show sequence similarity 89.1% and 70.1% to the LTR of rice retrotransposon RIRE8, respectively.SLTR1 and SLTR2 are of gypsy retrotransposons of rice.

序比较发现，SLTR1SLTR2存在著较高的同源性，并水稻逆转座子RIRE8的LTR序高度同源，分别89.1%70.1%，们属于一类水稻gypsy类型逆转座子。