Non-LTR Retrotransposons
APE type non LTR retrotransposons of multicellular organisms encode virus like 2A oligopeptide sequences, which mediate translational recoding during protein synthesis
... and non-long terminal repeat retrotransposons (non-LTRs) in the genomes of the unicellular organisms Trypanosoma brucei (Ingi) and ...within non-LTR retrotransposons ...
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Getting closer to a pre-vertebrate genome: the non-LTR retrotransposons of Branchiostoma floridae
... a non-TE-based ...harbouring non-LTR retrotransposons could be obtained considering that all the estimated copies (143) correspond to 5 kb full- length elements, and the value obtained would ...
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Non-long terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons: mechanisms, recent developments, and unanswered questions
... Mutation of endo-siRNA and piRNA Argonaute part- ners leads to transposon upregulation [85-87,117-119]. Transposon upregulation is associated with defects in germ cell development, emphasizing the importance of ...
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A search for reverse transcriptase coding sequences reveals new non LTR retrotransposons in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster
... of non-LTR retrotransposons were found in these unlocalized ...that non-LTR retrotransposons of different families accumulate mutations at the same rate, elements belonging to ...
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NeSL-1, an Ancient Lineage of Site-Specific Non-LTR Retrotransposons From Caenorhabditis elegans
... bearing retrotransposons (Springer effect in the shaping of eukaryotic ...of non-LTR ret- mented as they constitute a significant fraction of spon- rotransposable elements (elements that lack long ...
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Impact of non-LTR retrotransposons in the differentiation and evolution of anatomically modern humans
... that non-LTR retrotransposons-mediated processes might have played a significant role in recent human ...Indeed, non-LTR retrotran- sposons activity results in an enrichment of pre- and ...
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Examining non-LTR retrotransposons in the context of the evolving primate brain
... of non-LTR retrotransposons ...disease, non-neuronal systems, and neuronal systems of model organisms we can gain insight into the still unresolved question of what role RTs might play in ...
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Multiple Non-LTR Retrotransposons in the Genome of Arabidopsis thaliana
... Other reverse tran- scriptases are known to reside in mitochondria and plas- tids as part of some group I1 introns, however their sequences are distinct from those of[r] ...
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Gene Silencing Triggered by Non-LTR Retrotransposons in the Female Germline of Drosophila melanogaster
... two non-LTR retrotranspo- sons of Drosophila melanogaster are themselves natural triggers of homology-dependent gene ...I retrotransposons can mediate silencing of chimeric transcription units into ...
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Variation in base composition underlies functional and evolutionary divergence in non-LTR retrotransposons
... at non-CpG sites [46–48], editing by APOBEC proteins [49], that have been shown to differentially affect L1 and L2 elements in lizard [50], or GC-biased gene conversion, which will affect differently elements that ...
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Human transposable elements in Repbase: genomic footprints from fish to humans
... of non-long terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons (long interspersed elements, LINEs), 3 types (SINE1/7SL, SINE2/tRNA, and SINE3/5S) of short interspersed elements (SINEs), 1 composite ...
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Convergent evolution of tRNA gene targeting preferences in compact genomes
... new non-LTR retrotransposons in the ge- nomes of ...of non-LTR retrotransposons [11] failed to place the Dp_NLTR-A and Pp_NLTR-B ele- ments in any of the subfamilies of ...
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A Non-Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposon Family Is Restricted to the Germ Line Micronucleus of the Ciliated Protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila
... and non-LTR retrotransposons ...divide non-LTR transposons into two subgroups ...the non-LTR RT compared to those of retroviruses and LTR retrotrans- posons ...
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Restricting retrotransposons: a review
... of retrotransposons [280, ...IAP retrotransposons in early mouse embryogen- esis is maintained primarily by histone methylation, but in post-mitotic germ and other differentiated cells DNA methylation ...
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Evolutionary history of LTR-retrotransposons among 20 Drosophila species
... of LTR-retrotransposons is rather the result of the cumulative sum of numerous different ...of LTR-retrotransposons (Spearman correl- ation test r = ...only LTR- ...
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Meeting Report for Mobile DNA 2010
... on non-LTR retrotransposons and group II introns illustrated both the continued activity of these elements in altering the human genome and the remark- able diversity of regulatory mechanisms of the ...
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Antisense Transcription of Retrotransposons in Drosophila: An Origin of Endogenous Small Interfering RNA Precursors
... cells. LTR retrotransposons Dm297, mdg1, and blood, and non-LTR retrotransposons juan and jockey transcripts, are generated from intraelement transcription start sites with canonical ...
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Systematic survey of plant LTR-retrotransposons elucidates phylogenetic relationships of their polyprotein domains and provides a reference for element classification
... present, LTR-retrotransposon are often classified only to superfamily level (the broadest category of LTR-retrotransposon classification), that includes Ty1/ copia (also known as a family Pseudoviridae in ...
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Assembly and annotation tools for analysis of large contiguous regions of the maize genome
... repetitive (IRGSP, 2005) compared to 67% for maize (Zea mays). Classes of TEs also vary between organisms, the ratio of long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon/non-LTR retrotransposon/DNA ...
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LTRsift: a graphical user interface for semi-automatic classification and postprocessing of de novo detected LTR retrotransposons
... However, putting this family classification scheme into practice is rather complex and time-consuming. A possi- ble approach would be to augment the tabular file output of LTRdigest with cluster number data using ...
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