FB2025_01 , released February 20, 2025
Natural Transposon: Dmel\ZAM
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General Information
Symbol
ZAM
Species
D. melanogaster
Feature type
natural_transposable_element
FlyBase ID
FBte0000217
Sequences and Components
Complete element (bp)

Approximately 9000

(Leblanc et al., 1997)

8435

(Kaminker et al., 2002)
Terminal repeat (bp)

473

(Leblanc et al., 1997)
Reference sequence
transposon_sequence_set.fa.gz   transposon_sequence_set.gff.gz
Component genes
ZAM\pol
ZAM\gag
ZAM\env
Sequence Accessions
GenBank Nucleotide - A collection of sequences from several sources, including GenBank, RefSeq, TPA, and PDB.
Sequence Ontology (SO)
Insertions and Copy Number
Copy number and comments

0 in euchromatin of Release 3 genome annotation.

(Kaminker et al., 2002)

TE copies retrieved from release 5.1 of the D. melanogaster genome.:2

(Lerat et al., 2011)
Search for
Target Site Duplication
Size (bp)

6

(Leblanc et al., 1997)

4

(Linheiro and Bergman, 2012)
Orthologs
Comments

Expression is enriched in embryonic gonads.

(Shigenobu et al., 2006)

The consensus target site for ZAM element insertion is 5'-GCGCGCg-3' (the lowercase g indicates less than 50% occurrence of that base).

(Leblanc et al., 1999)

ZAM elements are similar in structure and coding potential to vertebrate retroviruses. Members of the family have a long evolutionary history in the genome of Drosophila. Study of ZAM genomic distribution by FISH mapping analysis to polytene or mitotic chromosomes indicates most of the insertion sites are associated with constitutive heterochromatin regardless of the ZAM copy number. Multiple ZAM elements may be present at an insertion site.

(Baldrich et al., 1997)
Other Information
Etymology
External Crossreferences and Linkouts ( 1 )
Crossreferences
GenBank Nucleotide - A collection of sequences from several sources, including GenBank, RefSeq, TPA, and PDB.
Synonyms and Secondary IDs (6)
Reported As
Symbol Synonym
38E.12
(Butler, 2001, Butler et al., 2001, McGill Drosophila Genome Project, 2001.9.25)
DmeZamV
(Pelisson et al., 2002, Terzian et al., 2001)
ZAM
(Mohamed et al., 2023, Wierzbicki et al., 2023, Yoth et al., 2023, Rigal et al., 2022, Giordani et al., 2021, Huang et al., 2021, Cavaliere et al., 2020, Fort-Aznar et al., 2020, Mérel et al., 2020, Ninova et al., 2020, Duc et al., 2019, Palazzo et al., 2019, Zhao et al., 2019, Barckmann et al., 2018, Sun et al., 2018, Fanti et al., 2017, Nefedova and Kim, 2017, Chen et al., 2016, Guida et al., 2016, Kavi et al., 2016, Peng et al., 2016, Wang et al., 2016, Bozzetti et al., 2015, Kofler et al., 2015, Matsumoto et al., 2015, Mugat et al., 2015, Rahman et al., 2015, Wang et al., 2015, Basquin et al., 2014, Hamada-Kawaguchi et al., 2014, Patil et al., 2014, Sytnikova et al., 2014, Czech et al., 2013, Dönertas et al., 2013, Handler et al., 2013, Muerdter et al., 2013, Ohtani et al., 2013, Rozhkov et al., 2013, Zanni et al., 2013, Anand and Kai, 2012, Kofler et al., 2012, Linheiro and Bergman, 2012, Olivieri et al., 2012, Sienski et al., 2012, Tan et al., 2012, Handler et al., 2011, Lerat et al., 2011, Liu et al., 2011, Nefedova et al., 2011, Pane et al., 2011, Zamparini et al., 2011, Zhang et al., 2011, Patil and Kai, 2010, Berry et al., 2009, Li et al., 2009, Malone et al., 2009, Brennecke et al., 2008, Czech et al., 2008, Desset et al., 2008, Faye et al., 2008, Kawamura et al., 2008, Brennecke et al., 2007, Fablet et al., 2007, Mevel-Ninio et al., 2007, Minervini et al., 2007, Nefedova and Kim, 2007, Zamore, 2007, Bergman et al., 2006, Shigenobu et al., 2006, Boussy and Itoh, 2004, Meignin et al., 2004, Conte et al., 2002, Leblanc et al., 2000)
ZAM virus
(Terzian et al., 2001)
Zam
(Satyaki et al., 2014, Li et al., 2013, Kapitonov and Jurka, 2003, Rizzon et al., 2002, Pantazidis et al., 1999, FlyBase, 1996-)
zam
(Mugnier et al., 2008, Lerat et al., 2003, Bowen and McDonald, 2001)
Secondary FlyBase IDs
  • FBgn0023131
  • FBtp0011471
References (118)