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Outside rice, the RT of Osr10 shows highest similarity (~65%) to that of the maize retrotransposon Opie-2 (T04112).
The algorithm for TSD signature recognition allows for detection of both 'standard' insertion events (in which the 3' TSD immediately follows the poly(A) tract associated with the retrotransposon) and possible 3' transduction events (in which the 3' TSD follows a poly(A) tail further downstream from the retrotransposon 3' end).
When an LTR retrotransposon inserts itself into host DNA, a short (usually 4-6 bp) segment of host DNA is replicated at the site of insertion.
The results presented here are consistent with the hypothesis that a 359 bp fragment of the Antonia retrotransposon located within the intron of the heterochromatic Drosophila melanogaster Cht3 gene may be of adaptive evolutionary significance.
Further genomic and molecular analyses will be required to assess the general importance of LTR retrotransposon sequences to the evolution of heterochromatic gene structure and function.