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Large transcriptome and genome sequence data have recently become publicly available for <jats:italic>Schistosoma mansoni<\/jats:italic>, a digenetic blood fluke that is a major causative agent of schistosomiasis in humans, and have provided a comprehensive repository for the discovery of novel genes and repetitive elements. Despite the extensive description of retroelements in <jats:italic>S. mansoni<\/jats:italic>, just a single DNA-only transposon belonging to the Merlin family has so far been reported in this organism.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>We describe a novel <jats:italic>S. mansoni<\/jats:italic> transposon named SmTRC1, for <jats:italic>S. mansoni<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:underline>T<\/jats:underline> ransposon <jats:underline>R<\/jats:underline> elated to <jats:underline>C<\/jats:underline> ACTA <jats:underline>1<\/jats:underline>, an element that shares several characteristics with plant CACTA transposons. Southern blotting indicates approximately 30\u2013300 copies of SmTRC1 in the <jats:italic>S. mansoni<\/jats:italic> genome. Using genomic PCR followed by cloning and sequencing, we amplified and characterized a full-length and a truncated copy of this element. RT-PCR using <jats:italic>S. mansoni<\/jats:italic> mRNA followed by cloning and sequencing revealed several alternatively spliced transcripts of this transposon, resulting in distinct ORFs coding for different proteins. Interestingly, a survey of complete genomes from animals and fungi revealed several other novel TRC elements, indicating new families of DNA transposons belonging to the CACTA superfamily that have not previously been reported in these kingdoms. The first three bases in the <jats:italic>S. mansoni<\/jats:italic> TIR are CCC and they are identical to those in the TIRs of the insects <jats:italic>Aedes aegypti<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Tribolium castaneum<\/jats:italic>, suggesting that animal TRCs may display a CCC core sequence.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The DNA-only transposable element SmTRC1 from <jats:italic>S. mansoni<\/jats:italic> exhibits various characteristics, such as generation of multiple alternatively-spliced transcripts, the presence of terminal inverted repeats at the extremities of the elements flanked by direct repeats and the presence of a Transposase_21 domain, that suggest a distant relationship to CACTA transposons from Magnoliophyta. Several sequences from other Metazoa and Fungi code for proteins similar to those encoded by SmTRC1, suggesting that such elements have a common ancestry, and indicating inheritance through vertical transmission before separation of the Eumetazoa, Fungi and Plants.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2148-6-89","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2006,11,7]],"date-time":"2006-11-07T19:15:39Z","timestamp":1162926939000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["SmTRC1, a novel Schistosoma mansoni DNA transposon, discloses new families of animal and fungi transposons belonging to the CACTA superfamily"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Ricardo","family":"DeMarco","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Thiago M","family":"Venancio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sergio","family":"Verjovski-Almeida","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2006,11,7]]},"reference":[{"issue":"6494","key":"274_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"215","DOI":"10.1038\/371215a0","volume":"371","author":"B Charlesworth","year":"1994","unstructured":"Charlesworth B, Sniegowski P, Stephan W: The evolutionary dynamics of repetitive DNA in eukaryotes. 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