Basidiomycetes telomeres: a bioinformatics approach

The bioinformatics analysis described in this paper allowed us to establish the type and the number of the telomere repeat unit in the basidiomycetes analyzed, to suggest the putative linkage groups in fungi where linkage maps are not available, to uncover misassembled telomere regions, and to reveal the preference for some gene models to be located at the subtelomeric regions and to uncover synteny among the subtelomere regions in the basidiomycetes analyzed.This work has been supported by funds of the AGL2008-05608-C02-01 of the Spanish National Plan of Scientific Research, the Bioethanol Euroinnova project of the Goverment of Navarre (Spain), by additional institutional support from the Public University of Navarre