Insertion Preference of Maize and Rice Miniature Inverted Repeat Transposable Elements as Revealed by the Analysis of Nested Elements Export

@article{citeulike:3723112, abstract = {A 128-bp insertion into the maize waxy-B2 allele led to the discovery of Tourist, a family of miniature inverted repeat transposable elements (MITEs). As a special category of nonautonomous elements, MITEs are distinguished by their high copy number, small size, and close association with plant genes. In maize, some Tourist elements (named Tourist-Zm) are present as adjacent or nested insertions. To determine whether the formation of multimers is a common feature of MITEs, we performed a more thorough survey, including an estimation of the proportion of multimers, with 30.2 Mb of publicly available rice genome sequence. Among the 6600 MITEs identified, >10\% were present as multimers. The proportion of multimers differs for different MITE families. For some MITE families, a high frequency of self-insertions was found. The fact that all 340 multimers are unique indicates that the multimers are not capable of further amplification. 10.1105/tpc.010235}, author = {Jiang, Ning and Wessler, Susan R.}, citeulike-article-id = {3723112}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1105/tpc.010235}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.plantcell.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/11/2553}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11701888}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=11701888}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1105/tpc.010235}, journal = {Plant Cell}, keywords = {mite, transposon}, month = {November}, number = {11}, pages = {2553--2564}, posted-at = {2008-11-28 22:54:31}, priority = {2}, title = {Insertion Preference of Maize and Rice Miniature Inverted Repeat Transposable Elements as Revealed by the Analysis of Nested Elements}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1105/tpc.010235}, volume = {13}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3723112 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3723112 N2 - A 128-bp insertion into the maize waxy-B2 allele led to the discovery of Tourist, a family of miniature inverted repeat transposable elements (MITEs). As a special category of nonautonomous elements, MITEs are distinguished by their high copy number, small size, and close association with plant genes. In maize, some Tourist elements (named Tourist-Zm) are present as adjacent or nested insertions. To determine whether the formation of multimers is a common feature of MITEs, we performed a more thorough survey, including an estimation of the proportion of multimers, with 30.2 Mb of publicly available rice genome sequence. Among the 6600 MITEs identified, >10% were present as multimers. The proportion of multimers differs for different MITE families. For some MITE families, a high frequency of self-insertions was found. The fact that all 340 multimers are unique indicates that the multimers are not capable of further amplification. 10.1105/tpc.010235 IS - 11 JF - Plant Cell EP - 2564 TI - Insertion Preference of Maize and Rice Miniature Inverted Repeat Transposable Elements as Revealed by the Analysis of Nested Elements VL - 13 SP - 2553 KW - mite KW - transposon AU - Jiang, Ning AU - Wessler, Susan PY - 2001/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1105/tpc.010235 ER -