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存在著较高同性，并与水稻逆转RIRE8LTR序列高度同，分别为89.1%和70.1%，它一类水稻gypsy类型逆转。