Artiodactyl retroposons : association with microsatellites and use in SINEmorph detection by PCR

• Published in: Nucleic acids research Vol. 20; no. 12; pp. 2955 - 2958
• Main Authors: KAUKINEN, J, VARVIO, S.-L
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 25.06.1992
• Subjects: Animals; Base Sequence; Biological and medical sciences; Cattle; Cloning, Molecular; Consensus Sequence; DNA Transposable Elements - genetics; DNA, Satellite - genetics; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Genes. Genome; Molecular and cellular biology; Molecular genetics; Molecular Sequence Data; Polymerase Chain Reaction; RNA, Transfer - genetics; RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase - metabolism; Amplification; Polymerase chain reaction; Interspersed repeated sequence; Retrotransposon; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Bovine; Genetic marker; Repeated sequence; DNA; Artiodactyla; Ungulata

During a search of polymorphic microsatellites for bovine genome mapping, we found that microsatellites often occur as tails of artiodactyl C-A retroposon elements. In this element, C (85bp) is a tRNA derivative, while A (117bp) is of unknown origin. The A element also occurs as dimer element with a...