Figure 10.

Four 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 four associations (from F to I) are located in the following genomic clones: AP003627, AC079685, AP003021 and AP003144. (F) An Osr34 solo LTR is associated with two putative genes nearby (P0459B04.22 and P0459B04.23) of unknown function. (G) An Osr8 fragmented LTR is partly associated with a putative LeoOPT1 (oligopeptide transport) gene (OSJNBb0012A20.5). (H) An Osr13 solo LTR constitutes almost half of a putative gene (P0503E05.17) of unknown function; (I) An Osr13 full-length retrotransposon is part of a putative rice gene (P0507H05.22) of unknown function.