Genome-wide analysis of LTR-retrotransposons in oil palm.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is a major cultivated crop and the world's largest source of edible vegetable oil. The genus Elaeis comprises two species E. guineensis, the commercial African oil palm and E. oleifera, which is used in oil palm genetic breeding. The recent publication of both the African oil palm genome assembly and the first draft sequence of its Latin American relative now allows us to tackle the challenge of understanding the genome composition, structure and evolution of these palm genomes through the annotation of their repeated sequences.

Methods

In this study, we identified, annotated and compared Transposable Elements (TE) from the African and Latin American oil palms. In a first step, Transposable Element databases were built throug

SUBMITTER: Beule T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4608283 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature