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Molecular Biology and Evolution 17:467-468 (2000)
© 2000 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Letter to the Editor

Codon Usage and the Origin of P Elements

Emmanuelle Lerat*{dagger}, Christian Biémont{dagger} and Pierre Capy2,*

*Laboratoire Populations, Génétique et Evolution, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif/Yvette, France; and
{dagger}Laboratoire Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Lyon I, Villeurbanne, France

The authors of a recent comparison of the P transposable element and three genes of Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila willistoni suggested that the codon usage of the D. melanogaster P element is similar to that of D. willistoni genes (Powell and Gleason 1996Citation ). They concluded that this could be further evidence of the recent horizontal transfer of the P element from D. willistoni to D. melanogaster indicated by several previous findings (Clark and Kidwell 1997Citation ). More specifically, it was shown that D. willistoni genes tend to be T-ending-codon genes, whereas those of D. melanogaster tend to be C-ending-codon genes. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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