Dmel\TART-A

General Information
Symbol	Dmel\TART-A	Species	D.melanogaster
Name		FlyBase ID	FBte0001206
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
Sequence Ontology (SO)
Transposon type	transposable_element (Villasante et al., 2007)
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

Other Information
Etymology

External Crossreferences
Sequence Crossreferences
	DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank
Other Crossreferences

Synonyms & Secondary IDs ( 3 )
Reported As
Symbol Synonym	TART (Bergman et al., 2006, Rozhkov et al., 2010, Khurana et al., 2010, Sreesankar et al., 2012) TART-A (Quesneville et al., 2005.6.22, FlyBase, 1996-, Pane et al., 2011, Anand and Kai, 2012) TART A (Li et al., 2009)
Name Synonym
Secondary FlyBase IDs
	FBtp0019625
References ( 12 )
Research paper	Anand and Kai, 2012, EMBO J. 31(4): 870--882 The tudor domain protein Kumo is required to assemble the nuage and to generate germline piRNAs in Drosophila. [FBrf0217541] Sreesankar et al., 2012, BMC Genomics 13: 255 Functional diversification of yeast telomere associated protein, Rif1, in higher eukaryotes. [FBrf0219090] 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] Khurana et al., 2010, PLoS Genet. 6(12): e1001246 Distinct Functions for the Drosophila piRNA Pathway in Genome Maintenance and Telomere Protection. [FBrf0212661] Nagao et al., 2010, RNA 16(12): 2503--2515 Biogenesis pathways of piRNAs loaded onto AGO3 in the Drosophila testis. [FBrf0212366] Rozhkov et al., 2010, RNA 16(8): 1634--1645 Small RNA-based silencing strategies for transposons in the process of invading Drosophila species. [FBrf0211292] Li et al., 2009, Cell 137(3): 509--521 Collapse of germline piRNAs in the absence of Argonaute3 reveals somatic piRNAs in flies. [FBrf0208736] Villasante et al., 2007, Genome Res. 17(12): 1909--1918 Drosophila telomeric retrotransposons derived from an ancestral element that was recruited to replace telomerase. [FBrf0202774] Bergman et al., 2006, Genome Biol. 7(11): R112 Recurrent insertion and duplication generate networks of transposable element sequences in the Drosophila melanogaster genome. [FBrf0193410]
Personal communication to FlyBase	DeBaryshe and Pardue, 2008.9.16, Telomeric elements on XL and 4R. Telomeric elements on XL and 4R. [FBrf0205582] Quesneville et al., 2005.6.22, r4 TE data. r4 TE data. [FBrf0184336]
FlyBase analysis	FlyBase, 1996-, FlyBase inference based on genome sequence analysis. FlyBase inference based on genome sequence analysis. [FBrf0104946]