Repbase Reports |
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| 2008, Volume 8, Issue 5 |
| May 31, 2008 |
| Copyright © 2001-2016 - Genetic Information Research Institute |
| ISSN# 1534-830X |
| Page 520 |
piggyBac-1_SM |
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DNA transposon from Schmidtea mediterranea. |
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Submitted: 29-May-2008 |
Accepted: 31-May-2008 |
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Key Words: piggyBac; DNA transposon; Transposable Element; piggyBac-1_SM |
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Source: Schmidtea |
Organism: Schmidtea |
Taxonomy: Eukaryota; Metazoa; Platyhelminthes; Turbellaria; Seriata; Tricladida; Paludicola; Dugesiidae |
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Authors: Kapitonov,V.V. and Jurka,J. |
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Title: Families of autonomous piggyBac element from the freshwater planarian genome and two clear examples of horizontal transfer of piggyBac transposons between a flatworm and insect. |
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Journal: Repbase Reports 8(5), 520-520 (2008)Repbase Reports |
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Abstract: piggyBac-1_SM is a young family of piggyBac transposons, characterized by 12-bp TIRs and TTAA target-site duplications. The consensus sequence was reconstructed based on multiple alignment of four copies (they are ~97% identical to the consensus). The genome contains several hundred copies of nonautonomous deletion derivates of piggyBac-1_SM. In addition, we report here other 14 families of the freshwater planarian (flatworm) piggyBac. Evolution of two of them, piggyBac-8_SM and piggyBac-15_SM, involved relatively recent events of horizontal transfer between a flatworm and insect (see comments on these transposons).
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Derived: [1] (Consensus) |
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Download Sequence - Format: IG, EMBL, FASTA |
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