Beyond the initial project, data is still a valuable resource, if it is accessible by software. Results from numerous research projects that might themselves be of minimal significance, can often be put together to make generalizations or observations that could be quite significant. Transposable elements in plants may carry regulatory sequences from gene to gene. A new family of inverted repeat elements associated with the genes of both monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants. The 5' coding sequence has been expanded to show the position of Stowaway-Sb1.
Triangles indicate terminal inverted repeats.
Stowaway had terminal inverted repeats characteristic of transposons. To test the hypothesis that Stoway is a transposon, they searched for Stowaway in othere plant sequences in GenBank. Select sequences with terminal inverted repeats and target site duplications. Repeat searches with presumptive Stowaway elements Many of the presumptive stowaway elements were present in 5' or 3' non coding regions. Polymorphisms for Stowaway insertions in different copies of genes are evidence that transposition has occurred after gene duplication.