Figure 9

Five cases of association between retroelements with O. sativa putative genes observed in this study. Red arrows indicate positions of LTR retroelements with the direction of transcription. Green bars represent NCBI database-predicted gene regions with their orientation of transcription. All the five associations (from A to E) are located in the following genomic clones: AP003103, AP003105, H0423H10, AC018727 and H0806H05. (A) An entire full-length Osr 43 retrotransposon is completely a part of a putative rice gene (B1085F09.5) of unknown function. (B) An Osr 13 solo LTR is entirely a part of a putative rice gene (P0489A05) of unknown function. (C) An Osr 15 fragmented LTR is completely a part of an unknown gene (H0423H10.8) and overlaps two introns (No. 1 and 2) and No. 2 extron of the gene. (D) An Osr 17 full-length retrotransposon overlaps two putative genes nearby (OSJNBa0056G17.33 and OSJNBa0056G17.22) of unknown function. (E) An Osr 34 fragmented LTR is associated with two putative genes nearby (H0806H05.13 and H0806H05.14) of unknown function. It constitutes extrons and introns of these two genes.