Mobile Genetic Elements in Metazoan Parasites
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Edited By:Paul J. BrindleyTulane University ISBN: 978-1-58706-093-9 Published: 2008-12-31 |
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Mobile Genetic Elements of Malaria Vectors and Other Mosquitoes
Zhijian Tu and Song Li
Mosquitoes are important vectors of a number of disease agents including malarial and filarial parasites as well as many types of viruses. A wide spectrum of both RNA-mediated and DNA-mediated transposable elements (TEs) have been discovered in the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, and ...
Schistosome Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons
Claudia S. Copeland, Thewarach Laha and Paul J. Brindley
The human schistosomes, blood flukes of the Genus Schistosoma, have a large genome estimated to be at least 270 megabase pairs (haploid) in size, arrayed on eight pairs (2n = 16) of chromosomes including the Z (male) and W (female) sex chromosomes. The genome appears to include about 14,000 prote...
Retrotransposons in the Genomes of the Digenean Parasitic Trematodes, Clonorchis sinensis and Paragonimus westermani
Young-An Bae and Yoon Kong
Considerable fractions of almost all eukaryotic genomes are composed of a variety of transposable elements (TEs). Members of the phylum Platyhelminthes are also thought to contain diverse TEs which comprise up to 40% of their genomes. A total of 29 retrotransposons, positioning into one non-long-...
Transposon Mediated Transgenesis of Mosquitoes
Craig J. Coates
The first six years of mosquito transgenesis have seen dramatic increases in the number of mosquito species that have been genetically transformed, the number of transposable element vectors that have been utilized to produce transformants, and in the diversity of applications for which the basic...
Schistosome Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons
Claudia S. Copeland, Thewarach Laha and Paul J. Brindley*
The human schistosomes, blood flukes of the Genus Schistosoma, have a large genome estimated to be at least 270 megabase pairs (haploid) in size, arrayed on eight pairs (2n = 16) of chromosomes including the Z (male) and W (female) sex chromosomes. The genome appears to include about 14,000 prote...
Non-Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons Colonizing Schistosome Genomes
Thewarach Laha, Claudia S. Copeland and Paul J. Brindley
It has become apparent that the schistosome genome is replete with numerous copies of diverse repetitive sequences. Mobile genetic elements constitute much of this repetitive component of the schistosome genome. Of these mobile elements, an expanding number of discrete schistosome retrotranspo...
Schistosome DNA Transposons
Ricardo DeMarco and Sergio Verjovski-Almeida
Schistosomes are digenetic blood flukes and the causative agents of schistosomiasis in humans. Large transcriptome and genome sequence databases have recently become publicly available for Schistosoma mansoni and S. japonicum and have provided a comprehensive repository for the discovery of ...
Endogenous Retrotransposon Sequences of the Schistosoma mansoni Intermediate Snail Host, Biomphalaria glabrata
Matty Knight, Joanna Bridger, Wannaporn Ittiprasert, Edwin Odoemelam, Julio Masabanda, André Miller and Nithya Raghavan
Schistosomiasis remains a major public health concern in 75 countries. Disease preva- lence and transmission is intimately associated with the presence of freshwater snails that serve as intermediate hosts for the larval stage of the parasite. The discovery of retrotransposons and transposons ...
