Quetzal: a transposon of the Tc1 family in the mosquitoAnopheles albimanus

✍ Scribed by Zhaoxi Ke; Genello L. Grossman; Anthony J. Cornel; Frank H. Collins

• Book ID: 104629669
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 544 KB
• Volume: 98
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-6707
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00121362

✦ Synopsis

A member of the Tcl family of transposable elements has been identified in the Central and South American mosquito Anopheles albimanus. The full-length Quetzal element is 1680 base pairs (bp) in length, possesses 236 bp inverted terminal repeats (ITRs), and has a single open reading frame (ORF) with the potential of encoding a 341amino-acid (aa) protein that is similar to the transposases of other members of the Tc 1 family, particularly elements described from three different Drosophila species. The approximately 10-12 copies per genome of Quetzal are found in the euchromatin of all three chromosomes ofA. albimanus. One full-length clone, Que27, appears capable of encoding a complete transposase and may represent a functional copy of this element.