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| Author(s): |
Guilherme Marcello Queiroga Cruz
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB/SDI) |
| Defense date: | 2014-05-09 |
| Examining board members: |
Marie Anne van Sluys;
Marcos Silveira Buckeridge;
Cláudia Márcia Aparecida Carareto;
Robson Francisco de Souza;
Michel Georges Albert Vincentz
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| Advisor: | Marie Anne van Sluys |
| Abstract | |
This doctoral thesis is structured in two chapters. In the first chapter we explore the LTRretrotransposons (LTR-RT) in sugarcane, these results were published in an article entitled \'\'Analysis of plant LTR-etrotransposons at the fine-scale family level reveals individual molecular patterns\'\'. In this paper we show that different sugarcane LTR-RT families have distinct structure and are differentially regulated. In the second chapter we try to find answers to questions that came up in the first half of this work, but instead of focusing in one plant genome we chose to work with the Del lineage of LTR-RT in tem angiosperm sequenced genomes. These results are submitted to publication as an article entitled \'\'Virus-like attachment sites and plastic CpG islands: landmarks of diversity in plant Del retrotransposons\'\'. Our results indicate that the LTR region is dynamic and important in the evolution of LTR-retrotransposons, we speculate that it is a trigger for retrotransposon diversification. (AU) | |