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|genbank=[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=nucleotide&val=4165192 AJ009736]
|type=17.6
|genus= Errantiviridae
|subfamily=Branch 2
|family=Ty3/Gypsy
|group=LTR retroelements
|description=''Idefix'' is a retrovirus originally characterized from a strain of ''Drosophila melanogaster'' called RevI where ''Idefix'' and ''Zam'' (other ''Gypsy'' element) have been associated with a series of mutations affecting eye coloration ([[Literature:17847|Desset ''et al.'' 1999]]). ''Idefix'' is primarily found in the centromeric heterochromatin but a limited number of ''Idefix'' copies are also found in the euchromatin ([[Literature:14607|Conte ''et al.'' 2000]]). ''Idefix'' belongs to the genus ''Errantiviridae'' ([[Literature:7342|Boeke ''et al.'' 1999]]; [[Literature:85379|Pringle 1998]]; [[Literature:61062|1999]];[[Literature:32800| Hull 1999]]), a lineage of fly-retroviruses and LTR retrotransposons phylogenetically related to ''412/mdg1'' clade [[Literature:78091|(Tubio, Naveira and Costas 2005]]). The genomic structure of ''Idefix'' is 7.4 Kb in size including LTRs of 0.6 Kb. The internal region displays a Primer Binding Site (PBS) complementary to a tRNA<sup>Lys-4</sup>, three Open Reading Frames (ORFs) for ''gag'', ''pol'', and ''env'' genes, and a Polypurine Tract (PPT) adjacent to the 3´LTR ([[Literature:17847|Desset ''et al.'' 1999]]).
|structure=Idefix.png
|host=Drosophila melanogaster
|hostpic=Drosophila_melanogaster.gif
|literature=*[[Literature:15303|Mobile DNA II. (Craig ''et al.'' 2002)]]
|picowner=[http://www.molgen.mpg.de/ Image, courtesy of Andreas Trepte, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics]
}}

Element:Idefix - Revision history

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