title: Characterization of Soymar1, a mariner element in soybean.
abstract: Mariner elements, a family of DNA-mediated transposable elements with short, inverted terminal repeats, have been reported in a wide variety of arthropods, as well as planarians, nematodes, and humans. No such element has been reported in a plant. Here we report a mariner element in the plant soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.). Although this sequence belongs to the mariner family, it is clearly distinct from previously reported mariner-like elements, as well as from the Tc1 transposon family. Novel aspects of its sequence could be useful as a starting point to identify mariner-like elements in new organisms, and it may prove useful in creating a transformation vector for plants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jarvik
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Lark
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001181:Arthropods / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009348:Nematoda / Q000235:genetics; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010932:Planarians / Q000235:genetics; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013025:Glycine max / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements