title: Quetzal: a transposon of the Tc1 family in the mosquito Anopheles albimanus.
abstract: A member of the Tc1 family of transposable elements has been identified in the Central and South American mosquito Anopheles albimanus. The full-length Quetzal element is 1680 base pairs (bp) in length, possesses 236 bp inverted terminal repeats (ITRs), and has a single open reading frame (ORF) with the potential of encoding a 341-amino-acid (aa) protein that is similar to the transposases of other members of the Tc1 family, particularly elements described from three different Drosophila species. The approximately 10-12 copies per genome of Quetzal are found in the euchromatin of all three chromosomes of A. albimanus. One full-length clone, Que27, appears capable of encoding a complete transposase and may represent a functional copy of this element.
authors.affiliation: Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamblee, GA 30341, USA.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ke
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Grossman
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Cornel
authors.forename: F H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Collins
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles / Q000235:genetics*; D001482:Base Composition; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases / Q000235:genetics*; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics; D017344:Genes, Insect; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010802:Phylogeny; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012469:Salivary Glands; D019895:Transposases
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases; D019895:Transposases