Credit

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TE classification and submission scheme

Zhijian Tu, Jim Hogan, Jose Tubio and Frank Collins.

Web interface and database design

Chunhong Mao, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

Annotation of TEs in Aedes aegypti

Compilation and initial classification of repeats

Brian Haas, TIGR and Zhijian Tu, Virginia Tech

Laboratories involved in TE annotation

LTR retrotransposons

Ty3/gypsy

Jose Tubio, Horacio Naveira and Javier Costas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Pao/Bel

Javier Costas, Horacio Naveira, and Jose Tubio, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Ty1/copia

Song Li, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

Non-LTR retrotransposons

Jim Biedler, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

SINEs

Zhijian Tu, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

DNA transposons

HAT transposons

Peter Arensburger and Peter Atkinson, UC Riverside.

P

Jim Hogan and Frank Collins, Biology, Notre Dame

PiggyBac

Jim Hogan and Frank Collins, Biology, Notre Dame

PIF

Zhijian Tu, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

pogo

Zhijian Tu, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

Hadi Quesneville, Institut Jacques Monod

DD37E

Zhijian Tu and Jim Biedler, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

DD37D, DD41D

Zhijian Tu, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

mariner

Jim Hogan and Frank Collins, Biology, Notre Dame

Zhijian Tu, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

Hadi Quesneville, Institut Jacques Monod

Tc1

Monique Coy and Zhijian Tu, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

MITEs

Zhijian Tu, Jim Bielder, Monique Coy, and Song Li, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

Helitron

Zhijian Tu, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

Overall coordination and checking for "composite" TEs

Zhijian Tu, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech