Identification of LTR retrotransposons in eukaryotic genomes: supports from structure and evolution.
Ubiquitous in eukaryotes, Long Terminal Repeats (LTR) retrotransposons elements play important role in the genome evolution. Sequencing of genomes presents a great challenge of rapidly identifying them in large-scale genomic data. In this report we describe LTR_INSERT, a computational method for identifying LTR elements in genomic sequences. Our method provides structural and evolutionary supports to discover LTR elements. By applying LTR_INSERT to two rice genomes, we have identified 72 novel LTR families in the species of which LTR elements have been extensively mined.
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T-life Research Center, Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China. wangh8@fudan.edu.cn
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D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D016678:Genome; D006801:Humans; D018626:Retroelements; D020079:Terminal Repeat Sequences / Q000235:genetics*
D018626:Retroelements