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{{Element
|genbank=[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=nucleotide&val=2791286 AJ000387]
|type=17.6
|genus= Errantiviridae
|subfamily=Branch 2
|family=Ty3/Gypsy
|group=LTR retroelements
|description=''Zam'' is a retrovirus originally identified as a mutational insertion in the white locus of ''Drosophila melanogaster''. This retrovirus is mobilized in the germinal lines ([[Literature:42312|Leblanc ''et al.'' 1997]]) and several studies have also reported mobilization of ''Zam ''(and ''Idefix'') in the line RevI of ''Drosophila melanogaster'' ([[Literature:17847|Desset ''et al.'' 1999]]; [[Literature:14607|Conte ''et al.'' 2000]]). ''Zam ''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 closely related to ''412/mdg1 ''clade [[Literature:78091|(Tubio, Naveira and Costas 2005]]). The genomic structure of ''Zam'' is 8.6 Kb in size including LTRs of 472 nt. The internal region displays a Primer Binding Site (PBS) complementary to a tRNA<sup>Ser</sup>, two Open Reading Frames (ORFs) for '' gag '' and ''pol'' genes, two ORFs that codify for a subgenomic env product<em>, </em>and a Polypurine Tract (PPT) adjacent to the 3´LTR ([[Literature:42312|Leblanc ''et al.'' 1997]]).
|structure=Zam.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]
}}

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