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SUBMITTER: Springer MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC52516 | biostudies-other | 1991 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Springer M S MS Davidson E H EH Britten R J RJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19911001 19
Retroviral-like elements (RL elements) include retroviruses and long terminal repeat (LTR)-containing retrotransposons. We report the presence of sea urchin RL elements (termed SURL) in eight species of sea urchins and find that these RL elements belong to several subfamilies. The complete DNA sequence of one SURL element in Tripneustes gratilla is 5266 base pairs long, including 254-nucleotide-long identical long terminal repeats (LTRs). It contains a single open reading frame nearly 4 kilobase ...[more]