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SUBMITTER: Ludwig A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5146736 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 20161116 12
Transposable elements are important residents of eukaryotic genomes and eventually the host can domesticate them to serve cellular functions. We reported here a possible domestication event of the vestigial interposed retroelement (VIPER) in trypanosomatids. We found a large gene in a syntenic location in Leishmania braziliensis, L. panamensis, Leptomanas pyrrhocoris, and Crithidia fasciculata whose products share similarity in the C-terminal portion with the third protein of VIPER. No remnants ...[more]