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.

序列比较发现，SLTR1和SLTR2存在著较的性，并与水稻逆转座子RIRE8的LTR序列，89.1%和70.1%，它们属于一类水稻gypsy类型逆转座子。