Simple telomeres in a simple animal: absence of subtelomeric repeat regions in the placozoan Trichoplax adhaerens.
Simple telomeres were identified in the genome assembly of the basal placozoan animal Trichoplax adhaerens. They have 1-2 kb of TTAGGG telomeric repeats, which are preceded by a subtelomeric region of 1.5-13 kb. Unlike subtelomeric regions in most animals examined, these subtelomeric regions are unique to each telomere.
Robertson
Hugh M
HM
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. hughrobe@uiuc.edu
D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D016678:Genome / Q000235:genetics; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D054909:Placozoa / Q000235:genetics*; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics*; D016615:Telomere / Q000235:genetics*