UNIX-fest
This key auto-completes a file, path, or command when typing at the command line.
What is the tab key?
The species name of the pathogen that caused the Black Death.
What is Yersinia pestis?
An ERV originates when a retrovirus infects this type of cell.
What is a germ cell?
This generic group of mobile elements cut and paste themselves in the host genome.
What are DNA transposons?
The two-word term describes a feature of two sequences that match more frequently than expected by chance.
What is excess similarity?
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What is the up arrow?
DNA from individuals who once lived in these two locations were used for the Black Death (Klunk et al.) study.
What are London and Denmark?
The genome of a retrovirus consists of two copies of this type of molecule.
What is ssRNA?
Possession of this gene distinguishes an ERV from a LINE.
What is env?
When using BLAST to find homologs, you want this number to be as low as possible.
What is the e-value?
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What is the ">" (greater than) sign?
This bacterium carries a mix of circular and linear plasmids in addition to a linear chromosome.
What is Borrelia (burgdorferi)?
This word describes any of several ERVs that have been exapted (co-opted) for use in placenta formation.
What is a syncytin?
This term refers to a situation where TE insertion exists at a specific locus in person A but is not found at the same locus in person B.
What is insertional polymorphism?
This term refers to a shared order of elements between two homologous regions.
What is synteny?
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What is the single dot/period?
This term refers to diseases trasmitted from animals to humans.
What are zoonoses?
These are short regions of homology at the tips of X and Y that allow crossing over.
What are pseudoautosomal regions (PARs)?
When the "sticky ends" generated by a TE insertion are filled in, the new insertion will be flanked by these.
What are target-site duplications?
This BLAST tool uses information gained from a multiple sequence alignment to find distant homologs.
What is PSI-BLAST?
This symbol takes the result of the command to its left and applies to it the command to its right.
What is the pipe "|" symbol?
A furin cleavage site is found within this protein in SARS-CoV-2 but not the original SARS.
What is Spike, or Envelope?
This value of dN/dS indicates that sites are undergoing positive (adaptive) selection.
What is >1?
These two regions of a retrovirus genome are identical at the time of insertion into the host genome.
What are long terminal repeats (LTRs)?
This term refers to two sequences that are related through a duplication event.
What are paralogs?