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Members of a Large Retroposon Family Are Determinants of Post-Transcriptional Gene Expression in Leishmania

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Divergence between Members of LmSIDER2 (1,013 Copies), TbSIDER1 (10 Copies), TbSIDER2 (12 Copies), RIME (70 Copies), and NARTc (115 Copies)

Bases covered by the L. major (LmSIDER2), T. cruzi (NARTc), and T. brucei (RIME, TbSIDER1, and TbSIDER2) short retroposons were sorted by their divergence from their consensus sequence. The consensus sequences, determined from the alignment of the core sequence of all the analyzed retroposons, approximate the element's original sequence at the time of insertion. The number of retroposons per fraction of 2% divergence is expressed as a fraction of the highest value, for which an arbitrary value of 1 has been assigned. The percentage of divergence was calculated using the matching region of the consensus sequences. The circled numbers on the top indicate the median value of each graph.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.0030136.g006