Horizontal transfer of transposons between and within crustaceans and insects.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Horizontal transfer of transposable elements (HTT) is increasingly appreciated as an important source of genome and species evolution in eukaryotes. However, our understanding of HTT dynamics is still poor in eukaryotes because the diversity of species for which whole genome sequences are available is biased and does not reflect the global eukaryote diversity.

Results

In this study we characterized two Mariner transposable elements (TEs) in the genome of several terrestrial crustacean isopods, a group of animals particularly underrepresented in genome databases. The two elements have a patchy distribution in the arthropod tree and they are highly similar (>93% over the entire length of the element) to insect TEs (Diptera and Hymenoptera), some of which were previo

SUBMITTER: Dupeyron M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3922705 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature