The landscape of transposable elements in the finished genome of the fungal wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In addition to gene identification and annotation, repetitive sequence analysis has become an integral part of genome sequencing projects. Identification of repeats is important not only because it improves gene prediction, but also because of the role that repetitive sequences play in determining the structure and evolution of genes and genomes. Several methods using different repeat-finding strategies are available for whole-genome repeat sequence analysis. Four independent approaches were used to identify and characterize the repetitive fraction of the Mycosphaerella graminicola (synonym Zymoseptoria tritici) genome. This ascomycete fungus is a wheat pathogen and its finished genome comprises 21 chromosomes, eight of which can be lost with no obvious effects on fitnes

SUBMITTER: Dhillon B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4522978 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature