Ancient and recent horizontal invasions of drosophilids by P elements
Ancient and recent horizontal invasions of drosophilids by P elements
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DOI:
10.1007/s002390010121
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发表时间:
2000-12-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Pinsker, W
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作者:
Haring, E;Hagemann, S;Pinsker, W
P elements of two different subfamilies designated as M- and O-type are thought to have invaded host species in the Drosophila obscura group via horizontal transmission from external sources. Sequence comparisons with P elements isolated from other species suggested that the horizontal invasion by the O-type must have been a rather recent event, whereas the M-type invasion should have occurred in the more distant past. To trace the phylogenetic history of O-type elements, additional taxa were screened for the presence of O- and M-type elements using type-specific PCR primers. The phylogeny deduced from the sequence data of a 927-bp section (14 taxa) indicate that O-type elements have undergone longer periods of regular vertical transmission in the lineages of the saltans and willistoni groups of Drosophila. However, starting from a species of the D, willistoni group they were transmitted horizontally into other lineages. First the lineage of the D. affinis subgroup was infected, and finally, in a more recent wave of horizontal spread, species of three different genera were invaded by O-type elements from the D. affinis lineage: Scaptomyza, Lordiphosa, and the sibling species D. bifasciata/D. imaii of the Drosophila obscura subgroup. The O-type elements isolated from these taxa are almost identical (sequence divergence