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Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:427-431 (2001)
© 2001 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

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Evolution and Discontinuous Distribution of Rex3 Retrotransposons in Fish

Jean-Nicolas Volff1,*, Cornelia Körting, Axel Meyer and Manfred Schartl

*Physiological Chemistry I, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany;
{dagger}Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

The fish non–long-terminal-repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposon Rex3 has recently been isolated from the platyfish Xiphophorus maculatus (Volff et al. 1999Citation ). Complete versions of Rex3 encode a reverse transcriptase (RT) and an apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease (fig. 1 ). Rex3 belongs to the RTE family of non-LTR retrotransposons (Malik and Eickbush 1998Citation ; Volff et al. 1999Citation ). From all autonomous fish retrotransposons reported to date, Rex3 has the widest distribution observed in teleosts and is present in fish species having diverged 150–200 MYA. We report here a large PCR- and Southern blot–based survey of Rex3 evolution including 21 representative teleost species (fig. 1 ) and 115 Rex3 partial reverse transcriptase sequences (fig. 2 ). The species chosen include a panel of economically important fishes (salmon Salmo salar, trout Oncorhynchus mykiss, carp Cyprinus carpio, sturgeon Acipenser sturio, mandarin fish Siniperca chuatsi) and several small aquarium teleosts used as models . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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