A High-Copy-Number CACTA Family Transposon in Temperate Grasses and Cereals

A High-Copy-Number CACTA Family Transposon in Temperate Grasses and Cereals

Tim Langdon^a, Glyn Jenkins^b, Robert Hasterok^c, R. Neil Jones^b, and Ian P. King^a
^a Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3EB, United Kingdom,
^b Institute of Biological Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DD, United Kingdom
^c Department of Plant Anatomy and Cytology, Silesian University, Jagiellonska 28, PL-40-032 Katowice, Poland

Corresponding author: Tim Langdon, Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3EB, United Kingdom., tlangdon{at}hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (E-mail)

Communicating editor: V. L. CHANDLER

A lineage of CACTA family transposons has been identified intemperate grasses and cereals, and a full-length representativeof the subfamily from Lolium perenne has been sequenced. Boththe size and internal organization of the L. perenne elementare typical of other CACTA family elements but its high copynumber and strong conservation are unexpected. Comparison withhomologs in other species suggests that this lineage has adopteda distinct and novel evolutionary strategy, which has allowedit to maintain its presence in genomes over long periods oftime.

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