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Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:1532-1539 (2001)
© 2001 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Sequences Homologous to the hobo Transposable Element in E Strains of Drosophila melanogaster

M. I. Galindo, Y. Bigot, M. D. Sánchez, G. Periquet and L. Pascual

Departament de Genètica, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte, Faculté des Sciences, Tours, France

Hobo is one of the three Drosophila melanogaster transposable elements, together with the P and I elements, that seem to have recently invaded the genome of this species. Surveys of the presence of hobo in strains from different geographical and temporal origins have shown that recently collected strains contain complete and deleted elements with high sequence similarity (H strains), but old strains lack hobo elements (E strains). Besides the canonical hobo sequences, both H and E strains show other poorly known hobo-related sequences. In the present work, we analyze the presence, cytogenetic location, and structure of some of these sequences in E strains of D. melanogaster. By in situ hybridization, we found that euchromatic hobo-related sequences were in fixed positions in all six E strains analyzed: 38C in the 2L arm; 42B and 55A in the 2R arm; 79E and 80B in the 3L arm; and 82C, 84C, and 84D in the 3R arm. Sequence comparison shows that some of the hobo-related sequences from Oregon-R and iso-1 strains are similar to the canonical hobo element, but their analysis reveals that they are substantially diverged and rearranged and cannot code for a functional transposase. Our results suggest that these ubiquitous hobo-homologous sequences are immobile and are distantly related to the modern hobo elements from D. melanogaster.


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