TY - JOUR AU - Sonbol, Sarah AU - Siam, Rania PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03/01 TI - The association of group IIB intron with integrons in hypersaline environments JO - Mobile DNA SP - 8 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - Group II introns are mobile genetic elements used as efficient gene targeting tools. They function as both ribozymes and retroelements. Group IIC introns are the only class reported so far to be associated with integrons. In order to identify group II introns linked with integrons and CALINS (cluster of attC sites lacking a neighboring integron integrase) within halophiles, we mined for integrons in 28 assembled metagenomes from hypersaline environments and publically available 104 halophilic genomes using Integron Finder followed by blast search for group II intron reverse transcriptases (RT)s. SN - 1759-8753 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-021-00234-2 DO - 10.1186/s13100-021-00234-2 ID - Sonbol2021 ER -