FlyBase Natural Transposon Report: Dmel\Helena

General Information

Symbol

Helena

Species

D. melanogaster

Feature type

natural_transposable_element

FlyBase ID

FBte0000984

Sequences and Components

Complete element (bp)

1317

(Kaminker et al., 2002)

Terminal repeat (bp)

Reference sequence

transposon_sequence_set.embl.txt.gz

Component genes

Helena\RTase

Sequence Accessions

GenBank Nucleotide - A collection of sequences from several sources, including GenBank, RefSeq, TPA, and PDB.

Sequence Ontology (SO)

Transposon type

non_LTR_retrotransposon

(Singh et al., 2006, Kaminker et al., 2002, Petrov, 1996.7.26)

transposable_element

(Kaminker et al., 2002, Petrov, 1996.7.26)

Insertions and Copy Number

Copy number and comments

7 in euchromatin of Release 3 genome annotation, of which zero are full length.

(Kaminker et al., 2002)

TE copies retrieved from release 5.1 of the D. melanogaster genome.:26

(Lerat et al., 2011)

Search for

Target Site Duplication

Size (bp)

Orthologs

Curated drosophilid orthologs

Comments

The pattern of indel formation for Helena in the D.melanogaster and D.virilis groups is very similar, suggesting a high rate of DNA loss is common in Drosophila.

(Petrov and Hartl, 1998)

Other Information

Etymology

External Crossreferences and Linkouts ( 3 )

Crossreferences

GenBank Nucleotide - A collection of sequences from several sources, including GenBank, RefSeq, TPA, and PDB.

Synonyms and Secondary IDs (7)

Reported As

Symbol Synonym

38B.21

(Butler, 2001, Butler et al., 2001, McGill Drosophila Genome Project, 2001.9.25)

CG10114

(Beckstead et al., 2007, Luschnig, 2003.12.17)

HELENA

(Satyaki et al., 2014, Le Thomas et al., 2013)

Helena

(Wierzbicki et al., 2023, Romero-Soriano and Garcia Guerreiro, 2016, Kofler et al., 2015, Kofler et al., 2012, Pane et al., 2011, Petrov et al., 2011, Rozhkov et al., 2010, Deloger et al., 2009, Li et al., 2009, Kawamura et al., 2008, Bergman and Bensasson, 2007, Brennecke et al., 2007, Singh et al., 2006, Petrov, 2002)

Helena element

HelenaDm

(Berezikov et al., 2000)

helena

(Ohtani et al., 2013, Lerat et al., 2011, Rebollo et al., 2008)

Secondary FlyBase IDs

FBgn0037505
FBgn0020425
FBtp0011433

References (48)

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