Spal\P-element

General Information
Symbol	Spal\P-element	Species	S.pallida
Name		FlyBase ID	FBte0001093
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	Spal\P-element\T
Sequence Accessions
	DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank AF313781 AF313794 M63341 M63342 U41184 U41185 U41186 U41187 U41188
Sequence Ontology (SO)
Transposon type	terminal_inverted_repeat_element transposable_element
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	Dmel\P-element
Comments
	A phylogenetic survey has identified four major P-element subfamilies in the saltans and willistoni species groups of Drosophila. (Clark et al., 1995) PCR screening for O-type P elements in the relatives of D.bifasciata reveal that they only occur in the sibling species D.imaii. An extremely close relative appears in S.pallida, from where horizontal transmission into D.bifasciata/D.imaii probably occurred. (Hagemann et al., 1995) P-element sequences from nine Dipteran species, including S.pallida, have been compared. The P-element phylogeny contradicts the phylogeny of the species, suggesting that horizontal transfer of P-elements may have occurred. (Clark et al., 1994) A number of Spal\P-elements have been cloned and sequenced from four independent stocks of S.pallida. These stocks each contain approximately 15 Spal\P-elements, including 3 to 4 full-length elements as well as shorter, deleted elements. All elements are divergent from one another, and appear to be immobile (since they are located at identical positions within the genome of independent stocks). This suggests that Spal\P-elements are old components of the S.pallida genome. Spal\P-elements are usually associated with repeated sequences, and are usually located in pericentromeric heterochromatin. (Simonelig and Anxolabehere, 1994) Spal\P-elements have been cloned and sequenced. The Spal\P-element is approximately 3kb long, has 31bp terminal inverted repeats and is flanked by an 8bp target site duplication. (Simonelig and Anxolabehere, 1991) Isolated from a S.pallida genomic library, using D.melanogaster P-element DNA as a probe. (Simonelig and Anxolabehere, 1991)
Other Information
Etymology

External Crossreferences
Sequence Crossreferences
	DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank AF313781 AF313794 M63341 M63342 U41184 U41185 U41186 U41187 U41188
Other Crossreferences

Synonyms & Secondary IDs ( 2 )
Reported As
Symbol Synonym	P element (de Setta et al., 2007) Spal\P-element
Name Synonym	P element (Garcia-Planells et al., 1995)
Secondary FlyBase IDs
	FBgn0013338
References ( 21 )

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