Characterization of terminal-repeat retrotransposon in miniature (TRIM) in Brassica relatives

Tae Jin Yang, Soo Jin Kwon, Beom Soon Choi, Jung Sun Kim, Mina Jin, Ki Byung Lim, Jee Young Park, Jin A. Kim, Myung Ho Lim, Ho Il Kim, Hyo Jin Lee, Yong Pyo Lim, Andrew H. Paterson, Beom Seok Park

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Abstract

We have newly identified five Terminal-repeat retrotransposon in miniature (TRIM) families, four from Brassica and one from Arabidopsis. A total of 146 elements, including three Arabidopsis families reported before, are extracted from genomics data of Brassica and Arabidopsis, and these are grouped into eight distinct lineages, Br1 to Br4 derived from Brassica and At1 to At4 derived from Arabidopsis. Based on the occurrence of TRIM elements in 434 Mb of B. oleracea shotgun sequences and 96 Mb of B. rapa BAC end sequences, total number of TRIM members of Br1, Br2, Br3, and Br4 families are roughly estimated to be present in 660 and 530 copies in B. oleracea and B. rapa genomes, respectively. Studies on insertion site polymorphisms of four elements across taxa in the tribe Brassiceae infer the taxonomic lineage and dating of the insertion time. Active roles of the TRIM elements for evolution of the duplicated genes are inferred in the highly replicated Brassica genome.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)627-636
Number of pages10
JournalTheoretical And Applied Genetics
Volume114
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2007

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