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| Author(s): |
Douglas Silva Domingues
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: | 2009-04-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Marie Anne van Sluys;
Marie Angele Grandbastien;
Maria Lucia Carneiro Vieira;
Michel Georges Albert Vincentz;
Claudia Barros Monteiro Vitorello
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| Advisor: | Marie Anne van Sluys |
| Abstract | |
The aim of this work was to characterize a sugarcane element belonging to a new Copia retrotransposon-family in sugarcane and also study the diversity of transcriptional active LTR-retrotransposons in sugarcane, based in a phylogenetic analysis of cDNAs from SUCEST. The new retrotransposon family identified in sugarcane was named SURE (Sugarcane REtrotransposon). BAC clones bearing one copy of SURE showed that sugarcane genome have a high sinteny with sorghum and rice genomes in coding regions. Other sugarcane sequences containing LTR-retroelements were characterized and compared to pre existent in the plant kingdom. Most of these lineages had at least one sugarcane element. The most representative group of these sequences was reunited as a new group of Copia superfamily in sugarcane and named Garapa. It comprises elements highly distributed in sugarcane chromosomes and with a higher variability when compared to SURE. Finally, SURE and Garapa represent two distinct lineages of Copia retrotransposons that had different amplification pattern in the sugarcane genome. (AU) | |