Genomic Evolution of the Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons in Hemiascomycetous Yeasts

Table 1.

Identification of RSTs that match SaccharomycesTy proteins

Yeast species Ty1/Ty2 Ty3 Ty4 Ty5 Total
S. bayanus 0 0 41 (Tsu4) 0 41
S. exiguus 19 (Tse1) 15 (Tse3) 0 10 (Tse5.1, Tse5.2) 45
S. servazzi 1 (Tss1) 3 (Tss3) 0 0 4
Z. rouxii 0 5 (Tzr3) 0 0 5
S. kluyveri 11 (Tsk1) 1 (Tsk3) 0 0 12
K. thermotolerans 0 0 0 0 0
K. lactis 12 (Tkl1.1, Tkl1.2) 0 0 0 12
K. marxianus 32 (Tkm1) 0 0 0 32
P. angusta 0 0 0 26 (Tpa5) 26
D. hansenii 2 (Tdh2) 2 (Tdh3) 0 28 (Tdh5) 32
P. farinosa 0 0 0 0 0
C. tropicalis 0 3 (Tct3) 0 0 3
Y. lipolytica 0 2 (Tyl3) 0 0 2
  • When random sequence tags (RSTs) matched several Ty elements, we only considered the best match. The name of the newly identified element is indicated in brackets.

  • Further identified as Tca2-like elements.

This Article

  1. Genome Res. 12: 930-943

Preprint Server