Major
Bioinformatics
Anticipated Graduation Year
2021
Access Type
Open Access
Abstract
Long-terminal repeating (LTR) retrotransposons are a class of transposable elements (TE) that replicate via a copy and past mechanism, proliferating to extremely high copy numbers in many plant genomes. Furthermore, LTR-TEs have been implicated in the domestication events of plants such as blood oranges. Trifolium repens (white clover) is an allotetraploid that is theorized to be the result of a hybrid speciation event between T. pallescens and T. occidentale.3 T. repens is also the subject of a current sequencing project, and thus in need of genome-wide sequence annotations. This project is concerned with the annotation of LTR-TEs in the new genome assembly of white clover, in the hopes of elucidating potential insertions that may be related to the species' speciation event.
Faculty Mentors & Instructors
Dr. Howard Laten, Loyola University Chicago Department of Biology
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Genome Annotation of LTR Retrotransposons in Trifolium repens
Long-terminal repeating (LTR) retrotransposons are a class of transposable elements (TE) that replicate via a copy and past mechanism, proliferating to extremely high copy numbers in many plant genomes. Furthermore, LTR-TEs have been implicated in the domestication events of plants such as blood oranges. Trifolium repens (white clover) is an allotetraploid that is theorized to be the result of a hybrid speciation event between T. pallescens and T. occidentale.3 T. repens is also the subject of a current sequencing project, and thus in need of genome-wide sequence annotations. This project is concerned with the annotation of LTR-TEs in the new genome assembly of white clover, in the hopes of elucidating potential insertions that may be related to the species' speciation event.