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MBE Advance Access published online on December 1, 2004
Molecular Biology and Evolution, doi:10.1093/molbev/msi060
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Accepted November 25, 2004

Research Article

New Regulatory Regions of Drosophila 412 Retrotransposable Element Generated by Recombination

Nathalie Mugnier 1, Christian Biémont 1, and Cristina Vieira 1*

1 UMR CNRS 5558. Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Cristina Vieira, E-mail: vieira{at}biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr


  Abstract

There are no doubts that transposable elements (TEs) have greatly influenced genomes evolution. They have, however, evolved in different ways throughout mammals, plants and invertebrates. In mammals they have been shown to be widely present but with low transposition activity; in plants they are responsible for large increase in genome size. In Drosophila, despite their low amount, transposition seems to be higher. Therefore, to understand how these elements have evolved in different genomes and what are the ways that host genomes have proposed to compel them, are major questions on genomes evolution. We analyzed sequences of the retrotransposable elements 412 in natural populations of the Drosophila simulans and D. melanogaster species that greatly differ in their amount of TEs. We identified new subfamilies of this element that were the result of mutation or insertion deletion process, but also of interfamily recombinations. These new elements were well conserved in the D. simulans natural populations. The new regulatory regions produced by recombination could give rise to new elements able to overcome host control of transposition and thus become potential genome invaders.

Keywords: retrotransposable element 412; Drosophila natural populations; regulatory region.
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