title: A new hobo, Ac, Tam3 transposable element, hopper, from Bactrocera dorsalis is distantly related to hobo and Ac.
abstract: A new transposable element from the hobo, Ac, Tam3 transposon family was isolated as a genomic clone from the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis. It is approximately 3.1 kb in length with 19-bp inverted terminal repeat sequences having a single mismatch. Though sharing several amino acid sequence identities with other hAT elements, it is distantly related to both hobo and Ac. Among hAT elements thus far described in insects, it is apparently the most distantly related to hobo.
authors.affiliation: Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA. handler@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Handler
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Gomez
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements