title: In silico analysis of plant and animal transposable elements.
abstract: Transposable Elements (TEs) play important roles in the evolution of eukaryotic organisms. TEs widely distribute depending on their properties present in the genome. This study elucidated the molecular characteristics of TEs in land plants and animals using bioinformatics and in silico mutational approach. We discovered that the GC-rich class I TEs is the predominant class of TEs in animal, but the AT-rich class II TEs is prevalent in plants. The GC-rich class I TEs appears to be evolved within the animals. On contrary, the preserved in AT-rich in class II TEs is believed to be contributed in host defence systems.
authors.affiliation: Center for Systems Biology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China.
authors.forename: Mo-Li
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Pilot Plant Development and Training Institute, King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thonburi, Bangkhunthian, Bangkok 10150, Thailand.
authors.forename: Songsak
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wattanachaisaereekul
authors.affiliation: Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
authors.forename: Yu-Jun
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Center for Systems Biology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China.
authors.forename: Wanwipa
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Vongsangnak
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D018745:Genome, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements
keywords: animals; bioinformatics; eukaryotic organisms; genome sequence; host defence systems; in silico mutation; land plants; transposable elements