Dsim\blood

General Information
Symbol	Dsim\blood	Species	D.simulans
Name		FlyBase ID	FBte0000696
Feature type	natural transposable element
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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 AF205100 AF205101 AF205102 AF205103 AF205104
Sequence Ontology (SO)
Transposon type	LTR_retrotransposon (Biemont et al., 2003) transposable_element (Costas et al., 1997)
Insertions & Copy Number
Copy number and comments	TE copies retrieved from the CAF1 assembly (from AAA) of the mosaic assembly of genomes from different strains of D. simulans.:35 (Lerat et al., 2011)
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	Dmel\blood (Costas et al., 1997)
Comments

Other Information
Etymology

External Crossreferences
Sequence Crossreferences
	DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank AF205100 AF205101 AF205102 AF205103 AF205104
Other Crossreferences

Synonyms & Secondary IDs ( 3 )
Reported As
Symbol Synonym	blood (Costas et al., 2001, Fablet et al., 2007, Lerat et al., 2011) Blood (Biemont et al., 2003) Dsim\blood
Name Synonym
Secondary FlyBase IDs
	FBgn0022848
References ( 11 )
Research paper	Lerat et al., 2011, Gene 473(2): 100--109 Comparative analysis of transposable elements in the melanogaster subgroup sequenced genomes. [FBrf0212990] Biemont et al., 2003, Evolution 57(1): 159--167 Worldwide distribution of transposable element copy number in natural populations of Drosophila simulans. [FBrf0158920] Vieira et al., 2002, Mol. Biol. Evol. 19(7): 1154--1161 Evolution of genome size in Drosophila. Is the invader's genome being invaded by transposable elements? [FBrf0149104] Costas et al., 2001, J. Mol. Evol. 52(4): 342--350 Amplification and phylogenetic relationships of a subfamily of blood, a retrotransposable element of Drosophila. [FBrf0135870] Vieira et al., 2000, Genet. Res. (Camb.) 76(1): 117--119 High copy numbers of multiple transposable element families in an Australian population of Drosophila simulans. [FBrf0130140] Biemont and Cizeron, 1999, Genetica 105(1): 43--62 Distribution of transposable elements in Drosophila species. [FBrf0111330] Vieira et al., 1999, Mol. Biol. Evol. 16(9): 1251--1255 Wake up of transposable elements following Drosophila simulans worldwide colonization. [FBrf0111510] Costas et al., 1997, D. I. S. 80: 41--42 A preliminary study on the relationship between the blood transposable element and the Drosophila genome. [FBrf0098391]
Review	Fablet et al., 2007, Gene 390(1--2): 84--91 The evolution of retrotransposon regulatory regions and its consequences on the Drosophila melanogaster and Homo sapiens host genomes. [FBrf0194872] Sanchez-Gracia et al., 2005, Trends Genet. 21(4): 200--203 High rate of horizontal transfer of transposable elements in Drosophila. [FBrf0184259] Biemont et al., 1999, Genetica 107(1-3): 113--120 Transposable elements and genome evolution: the case of Drosophila simulans. [FBrf0129733]