Dmel\gtwin

General Information
Symbol	Dmel\gtwin	Species	D.melanogaster
Name	gtwin	FlyBase ID	FBte0001062
Feature type	natural transposable element
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FB2013_03
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Sequences & Components
Complete element (bp)	7411 (Kaminker et al., 2002)
Terminal repeat (bp)
Reference sequence	transposon_sequence_set.embl.txt.gz
Component genes
Sequence Accessions
	DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank AI109538 BG632449
Sequence Ontology (SO)
Transposon type	LTR_retrotransposon (Kaminker et al., 2002, Kapitonov and Jurka, 1997-, Mugnier et al., 2008) transposable_element (Kaminker et al., 2002, Kapitonov and Jurka, 1997-, Bowen and McDonald, 2001, Mugnier et al., 2008)
Insertions & Copy Number
Copy number and comments	6 in euchromatin of Release 3 genome annotation, of which 2 are full length. (Kaminker et al., 2002)
Search for	All insertions of this transposon Insertions in the sequenced genome Insertions in other genomes
Target Site Duplication
Size (bp)	4 (Linheiro and Bergman, 2012)
Orthologs
Curated drosophilid orthologs
Comments
	Expression is enriched in embryonic gonads. (Shigenobu et al., 2006)
Other Information
Etymology

External Crossreferences
Sequence Crossreferences
	DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank AI109538 BG632449
Other Crossreferences

Synonyms & Secondary IDs ( 8 )
Reported As
Symbol Synonym	BEST:GH08762 GH08762 (Furlong et al., 2001) Gtwin (Kapitonov and Jurka, 2003) gtwin (FlyBase, 1992-, Shigenobu et al., 2006, Ganko et al., 2006, Linheiro and Bergman, 2012, Glukhov et al., 2004, Kotnova et al., 2006, Stefanov et al., 2007, Pane et al., 2011, Brennecke et al., 2007, Kotnova et al., 2007, Mugnier et al., 2008, Salenko et al., 2011, Liu et al., 2011, Nefedova et al., 2011, Brennecke et al., 2008, Deloger et al., 2009, Stefanov et al., 2009, Malone et al., 2009, Ludwig and Loreto, 2007, Li et al., 2009, Stefanov et al., 2010, Zamparini et al., 2011, Sienski et al., 2012) GTWIN (Lau et al., 2009, Brower-Toland et al., 2009) gt win (Kawamura et al., 2008) GTWIN_I (Gunawardane et al., 2007) hamilton (Bowen and McDonald, 2001)
Name Synonym	gtwin (Kotnova et al., 2007, Mugnier et al., 2008)
Secondary FlyBase IDs
	FBgn0047356 FBgn0063436 FBtp0017058
References ( 35 )

Generate a list of	All references relating to this natural transposable element ( 35 )

List References by type	Research paper ( 30 ) Supplementary material ( 1 ) Personal communication to FlyBase ( 2 ) FlyBase analysis ( 2 )
Recent research papers ( 7 )
	Linheiro and Bergman, 2012, PLoS ONE 7(2): e30008 Whole Genome Resequencing Reveals Natural Target Site Preferences of Transposable Elements in Drosophila melanogaster. [FBrf0217478] Sienski et al., 2012, Cell 151(5): 964--980 Transcriptional silencing of transposons by piwi and maelstrom and its impact on chromatin state and gene expression. [FBrf0220033] Liu et al., 2011, Development 138(9): 1863--1873 PAPI, a novel TUDOR-domain protein, complexes with AGO3, ME31B and TRAL in the nuage to silence transposition. [FBrf0213491] Nefedova et al., 2011, Virus Genes 42(2): 297--306 Integration specificity of LTR-retrotransposons and retroviruses in the Drosophila melanogaster genome. [FBrf0213545] Pane et al., 2011, EMBO J. 30(22): 4601--4615 The Cutoff protein regulates piRNA cluster expression and piRNA production in the Drosophila germline. [FBrf0217070] Salenko et al., 2011, Dokl. Biochem. Biophys. 436: 16--19 A rare family of gtwin retrotransposon carrying a mutation in the tRNA-primer binding site is amplified in G-32 Drosophila melanogaster strain. [FBrf0213156] Zamparini et al., 2011, Development 138(18): 4039--4050 Vreteno, a gonad-specific protein, is essential for germline development and primary piRNA biogenesis in Drosophila. [FBrf0214783] Show all research papers ...