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Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 12, 902-913, Copyright © 1995 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

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Molecular evolution of P transposable elements in the genus Drosophila. I. The saltans and willistoni species groups

JB Clark, TK Altheide, MJ Schlosser and MG Kidwell
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA.

A phylogenetic survey using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has identified four major P element subfamilies in the saltans and willistoni species groups of Drosophila. One subfamily, containing about half of the sequences studied, consists of elements that are very similar to the canonical (and active) P element from D. melanogaster. Within this subfamily, nucleotide sequence differentiation among different copies from the same species and among elements from different species is relatively low. This observation suggests that the canonical elements are relatively recent additions to the genome or, less likely, are evolving slowly relative to the other subfamilies. Elements belonging to the three noncanonical lineages are distinct from the canonical elements and from one another. Furthermore, there is considerably more sequence variation, on the average, within the noncanonical subfamilies compared to the canonical elements. Horizontal transfer and the coexistence of multiple, independently evolving element subfamilies in the same genome may explain the distribution of P elements in the saltans and willistoni species groups. Such explanations are not mutually exclusive, and each may be involved to varying degrees in the maintenance of P elements in natural populations of Drosophila.
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