Ke Z, Grossman G L, Cornel A J, Collins F H
Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamblee, GA 30341, USA.
Genetica. 1996 Oct;98(2):141-7. doi: 10.1007/BF00121362.
A member of the Tc1 family of transposable elements has been identified in the Central and South American mosquito Anopheles albimanus. The full-length Quetzal element is 1680 base pairs (bp) in length, possesses 236 bp inverted terminal repeats (ITRs), and has a single open reading frame (ORF) with the potential of encoding a 341-amino-acid (aa) protein that is similar to the transposases of other members of the Tc1 family, particularly elements described from three different Drosophila species. The approximately 10-12 copies per genome of Quetzal are found in the euchromatin of all three chromosomes of A. albimanus. One full-length clone, Que27, appears capable of encoding a complete transposase and may represent a functional copy of this element.
在中美洲和南美洲的白纹伊蚊中发现了转座元件Tc1家族的一个成员。全长的格查尔元件长度为1680个碱基对（bp），具有236 bp的反向末端重复序列（ITR），并具有一个单一的开放阅读框（ORF），有可能编码一种341个氨基酸（aa）的蛋白质，该蛋白质与Tc1家族其他成员的转座酶相似，特别是来自三种不同果蝇物种的元件。在白纹伊蚊所有三条染色体的常染色质中，每个基因组大约有10 - 12个格查尔元件拷贝。一个全长克隆Que27似乎能够编码完整的转座酶，可能代表该元件的一个功能拷贝。
