An ancient clade of Penelope-like retroelements with permuted domains is present in the green lineage and protists, and dominates many invertebrate genomes.
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DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab225
Abstract: Penelope-like elements (PLEs) are an enigmatic clade of retrotransposons whose reverse transcriptases (RTs) share a most recent common ancestor with telomerase RTs. The single ORF of canonical EN+ PLEs encodes RT and a C-terminal GIY-YIG… read more here.
Keywords: ancient clade; canonical ples; clade penelope; like retroelements ... See more keywords