Dmel\Helitron

General Information
Symbol	Dmel\Helitron	Species	D.melanogaster
Name	Helitron	FlyBase ID	FBte0000170
Feature type	natural transposable element
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FB2013_03
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Sequences & Components
Complete element (bp)
Terminal repeat (bp)
Reference sequence	transposon_sequence_set.embl.txt.gz
Component genes
Sequence Accessions
	DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank
Sequence Ontology (SO)
Transposon type	helitron transposable_element (Kapitonov and Jurka, 2003)
Insertions & Copy Number
Copy number and comments
Search for	All insertions of this transposon Insertions in the sequenced genome Insertions in other genomes
Target Site Duplication
Size (bp)
Orthologs
Curated drosophilid orthologs
Comments
	About a 600bp partial Helitron element has been identified in D.melanogaster. (Kapitonov and Jurka, 2003)
Other Information
Etymology

External Crossreferences
Sequence Crossreferences
	DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank
Other Crossreferences

Synonyms & Secondary IDs ( 1 )
Reported As
Symbol Synonym	Helitron
Name Synonym	Helitron
Secondary FlyBase IDs
	FBgn0067418 FBtp0019254
References ( 3 )
Research paper	Kapitonov and Jurka, 2003, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100(11): 6569--6574 Molecular paleontology of transposable elements in the Drosophila melanogaster genome. [FBrf0160656] Poulter et al., 2003, Gene 313: 201--212 Vertebrate helentrons and other novel Helitrons. [FBrf0173140]
FlyBase analysis	FlyBase, 1992-, FlyBase curation. FlyBase curation. [FBrf0105495]