Complete fusion of a transposon and herpesvirus created the Teratorn mobile element in medaka fish

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 551 - 14
• Main Authors: Inoue, Yusuke, Saga, Tomonori, Aikawa, Takumi, Kumagai, Masahiko, Shimada, Atsuko, Kawaguchi, Yasushi, Naruse, Kiyoshi, Morishita, Shinichi, Koga, Akihiko, Takeda, Hiroyuki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 15.09.2017; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/181/2474; 631/208/212/2305; 631/326/596/2554; Amphibians; Animals; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA Transposable Elements - genetics; Fish; Gene Fusion; Genomes; Herpes viruses; Herpesviridae - genetics; Humanities and Social Sciences; Life cycle engineering; Life cycles; multidisciplinary; Oryzias - genetics; Recombination; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Transposition; Transposons; Viruses

Mobile genetic elements (e.g., transposable elements and viruses) display significant diversity with various life cycles, but how novel elements emerge remains obscure. Here, we report a giant (180-kb long) transposon, Teratorn , originally identified in the genome of medaka, Oryzias latipes . Terat...