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Bologa AM, Stoica I, Constantin ND, Ecovoiu AA. The Landscape of the DNA Transposons in the Genome of the Horezu_LaPeri Strain of Drosophila melanogaster. INSECTS 2023; 14:494. [PMID: 37367310 DOI: 10.3390/insects14060494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Natural transposons (NTs) represent mobile DNA sequences found in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. Drosophila melanogaster (the fruit fly) is a eukaryotic model organism with NTs standing for about 20% of its genome and has contributed significantly to the understanding of various aspects of transposon biology. Our study describes an accurate approach designed to map class II transposons (DNA transposons) in the genome of the Horezu_LaPeri fruit fly strain, consecutive to Oxford Nanopore Technology sequencing. A whole genome bioinformatics analysis was conducted using Genome ARTIST_v2, LoRTE and RepeatMasker tools to identify DNA transposons insertions. Then, a gene ontology enrichment analysis was performed in order to evaluate the potential adaptive role of some DNA transposons insertions. Herein, we describe DNA transposon insertions specific for the Horezu_LaPeri genome and a predictive functional analysis of some insertional alleles. The PCR validation of P-element insertions specific for this fruit fly strain, along with a putative consensus sequence for the KP element, is also reported. Overall, the genome of the Horezu_LaPeri strain contains several insertions of DNA transposons associated with genes known to be involved in adaptive processes. For some of these genes, insertional alleles obtained via mobilization of the artificial transposons were previously reported. This is a very alluring aspect, as it suggests that insertional mutagenesis experiments conducting adaptive predictions for laboratory strains may be confirmed by mirroring insertions which are expected to be found at least in some natural fruit fly strains.
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- Alexandru Marian Bologa
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 060101 Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 060101 Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 060101 Bucharest, Romania
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Paternal Induction of Hybrid Dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster Is Weakly Correlated with Both P-Element and hobo Element Dosage. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2017; 7:1487-1497. [PMID: 28315830 PMCID: PMC5427502 DOI: 10.1534/g3.117.040634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Transposable elements (TEs) are virtually ubiquitous components of genomes, yet they often impose significant fitness consequences on their hosts. In addition to producing specific deleterious mutations by insertional inactivation, TEs also impose general fitness costs by inducing DNA damage and participating in ectopic recombination. These latter fitness costs are often assumed to be dosage-dependent, with stronger effects occurring in the presence of higher TE copy numbers. We test this assumption in Drosophila melanogaster by considering the relationship between the copy number of two active DNA transposons, P-element and hobo element, and the incidence of hybrid dysgenesis, a sterility syndrome associated with transposon activity in the germline. By harnessing a subset of the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP), a group of fully-sequenced D. melanogaster strains, we describe quantitative and structural variation in P-elements and hobo elements among wild-derived genomes and associate these factors with hybrid dysgenesis. We find that the incidence of hybrid dysgenesis is associated with both P-element and hobo element copy number in a dosage-dependent manner. However, the relationship is weak for both TEs, suggesting that dosage alone explains only a small part of TE-associated fitness costs.
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Nitasaka E, Mukai T, Yamazaki T. Repressor of P elements in Drosophila melanogaster: Cytotype determination by a defective P element carrying only open reading frames 0 through 2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 84:7605-8. [PMID: 16593888 PMCID: PMC299348 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.84.21.7605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The P element is a type of transposable element in Drosophila melanogaster. Characteristics of the syndrome of "hybrid dysgenesis" are due to transposition of P elements, and the molecular mechanism for regulation of this transposition has been unknown. In this study a Q strain (which carries only defective P elements in its genome but still is able to repress the transposition of complete P elements although defective in transposase activity) was used to determine the structure of the P element with this repressor (or P cytotype-determining) domain. Examination of the cytotype and structure of the P elements of particular strains with reduced copy number of P elements showed that the P element with a repressor domain was defective, being deleted between bases 1991 and 2448. This region corresponds to most of the third intron [between open reading frame (ORF) 2 and ORF 3] as well as half the ORF 3 of an intact P element. Therefore ORF 3 was deemed to be unnecessary for repressor production.
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- E Nitasaka
- Laboratory of Population Genetics, Department of Biology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812, Japan
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Subramanian RA, Akala OO, Adejinmi JO, O'Brochta DA. Topi, an IS630/Tc1/mariner-type transposable element in the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. Gene 2008; 423:63-71. [PMID: 18634859 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.06.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2008] [Revised: 06/10/2008] [Accepted: 06/12/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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IS630/Tc1/mariner elements are diverse and widespread within insects. The African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, contains over 30 families of IS630/Tc1/mariner elements although few have been studied in any detail. To examine the history of Topi elements in An. gambiae populations, Topi elements (n=73) were sampled from five distinct populations of An. gambiae from eastern and western Africa and evaluated with respect to copy number, nucleotide diversity and insertion site-occupancy frequency. Topi 1 and 2 elements were abundant (10-34 per diploid genome) and highly diverse (pi=0.051). Elements from mosquitoes collected in Nigeria were Topi 2 elements and those from mosquitoes collected in Mozambique were Topi 1 elements. Of the 49 Topi transposase open reading frames sequenced none were found to be identical. Intact elements with complete transposase open reading frames were common, although based on insertion site-occupancy frequency data it appeared that genetic drift was the major force acting on these IS630/Tc1/mariner-type elements. Topi 3 elements were not recovered from any of the populations sampled in this study and appear to be rare elements in An. gambiae, possibly due to a recent introduction.
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- Ramanand A Subramanian
- Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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Zabalou S, Alahiotis SN, Yannopoulos G. Seasonal analysis of 23.5 MRF (hobo) and P-M hybrid dysgenesis determinants in a Greek natural population of Drosophila melanogaster. Hereditas 2008; 114:1-13. [PMID: 1649151 DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1991.tb00548.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Genetic analysis of 23.5 MRF (hobo) and P-M hybrid dysgenesis determinants in a Greek natural population in six collections over 24 months, showed the existence of hobo activity in the population at rates higher than P activity. Moreover, seasonal differentiation in hobo GD-sterility potential and hobo repressor abilities were observed. The P activity was low in the population but some tendency for seasonal differentiation of the cytotype was detected. The two systems operate independently in nature. Analysis of isofemale lines, established from inseminated wild-caught females, showed rapid differentiation of their hybrid dysgenesis determinants in the laboratory. This shows that results obtained from isofemale lines do not necessarily reflect the original population structure. The seasonal differentiation may be correlated with seasonal environmental factors, and may be attributed to differences in structure and function of the elements that consequently affect their regulation and transposition.
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- S Zabalou
- Department of Biology, University of Patras, Greece
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Itoh M, Fukui T, Kitamura M, Uenoyama T, Watada M, Yamaguchi M. Phenotypic stability of the P-M system in wild populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Genes Genet Syst 2005; 79:9-18. [PMID: 15056932 DOI: 10.1266/ggs.79.9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The P element appears to be one of the most recently invaded transposons of D. melanogaster. To study the dynamics and long-term fate of P elements in natural populations of D. melanogaster, 472 isofemale lines newly collected from 27 localities of Japan were examined for the P element-associated characteristics (abilities to induce and repress of P element transposition) and genomic P element composition (size classes and their numbers). There was variation in the P element-related phenotypes among local populations, but genomic P composition did not correlate strongly with the phenotype of each line: full-size P and KP elements predominated in their genomes (FP+ KP predominance). Comparison with previous results suggests a stability in the P-M system in local populations over about 15 years. In some populations, phenotypic stability for particularly long times was found: for 30 years or more Q strains predominated in Hikone and Tanushimaru, P or Q strains around Inakadate, and M' or Q strains around Tozukawa. There was no clear evidence of structural destruction underlying functional variation of P elements during this period. These results suggest that the current evolutionary status of P elements in the gene pool of D. melanogaster is not intermediary stage predicted by the original recent invasion hypothesis, and that several other factors such as the position effect play important roles.
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- Masanobu Itoh
- Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan.
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Itoh M, Sasai N, Inoue Y, Watada M. P elements and P-M characteristics in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster in the southernmost islands of Japan and in Taiwan. Heredity (Edinb) 2001; 86:206-12. [PMID: 11380666 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2001.00817.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In order to study P element dynamics in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster, 126 isofemale lines were examined from seven of the southernmost islands of Japan (the Sakishima Islands) and from Taiwan. Gonadal dysgenesis (GD) tests showed large divergences in the P-M phenotypes (P inducing and P repressing abilities) between the island populations. The P-M characteristics of each population, however, had not greatly changed in the past 15 years. Their genomic P element profiles are highly similar, consisting mostly of full-size P and of KP elements. We found no clear relationship between phenotype and genomic P element composition.
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- M Itoh
- Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.
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Corish P, Black DM, Featherston DW, Merriam J, Dover GA. Natural repressors of P-induced hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster: a model for repressor evolution. Genet Res (Camb) 1996; 67:109-21. [PMID: 8801184 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300033577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Type I repressors control P element transposition and comprise full length elements and elements with small 3' deletions in the final exon. Using a sensitive assay for measuring the strength of repression of P element transposition in somatic and germline tissues, we have isolated and characterized a naturally occurring type I repressor element from a Q population of Drosophila melanogaster. We demonstrate that the almost complete repression of transposition in this population is a mixture of KP elements with intermediate levels of repression, and the strong contribution of a single 2.6 kb P element deletion derivative, which we call SR (Strong Repressor). A deletion in the final intron of SR allows for the constitutive production of a putative 75 kDa repressor protein in germline tissues in addition to the production of the 66 kDa repressor in the soma, which would result in a biparental mode of inheritance of repression. Based on the four observed classes of natural Q populations, we propose a model in which populations containing SR-like elements, capable of producing strong type I repressor constitutively, have a selective advantage over populations which rely either on maternally transmitted P cytotype or on KP-induced weak levels of repression. Such populations may subsequently spread and constitute an evolutionary stable strategy for the repression of hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster.
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- P Corish
- Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, UK
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Nitasaka E, Yamazaki T. The relationship between DNA structural variation and activities of P elements in P and Q strains of Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb) 1994; 73 ( Pt 6):608-15. [PMID: 7814262 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1994.168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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To characterize the relationship between P element activities and their structures, we cloned P elements from genomic libraries of three isogenic P and Q strains derived from natural populations in Japan. These P elements were mapped with BamHI, AvaII and PstI and were classified by their size. The majority of P elements cloned were classified as either complete or relatively small P elements rather than medium size. The numbers of full length (2.9 kb) P elements per haploid genome of NP280 (P), AK194 (weak P) and WY113 (Q) were at least four, five and one, respectively. However, the 2.9 kb P element of WY113 was thought to be defective since this strain has no transposase activity. In our previous work, we demonstrated that the ORF 3-deleted P element is essential for P cytotype determination in WY113. A similar P element also exists in NP280, and this may have an important role for P cytotype determination in this strain. Two and one copies of the KP element, a deletion derivative of the P element, were found in NP280 and AK194, respectively. One of four complete P elements in NP280 was fully sequenced, and the base sequence was completely identical to that of p pi 25.1 originally derived from the U.S.A. This result is consistent with the notion that these P elements have a relatively recent origin in Drosophila melanogaster.
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- E Nitasaka
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Matsuura ET, Takada S, Kato H, Niizeki S, Chigusa SI. Hybrid dysgenesis in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster in Japan. III. The P-M system in and around Japan. Genetica 1993; 90:9-16. [PMID: 8150296 DOI: 10.1007/bf01435173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The P-M system of hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster was investigated on the basis of gonadal dysgenesis, using 1,590 strains from 28 natural populations in Japan, and 20 populations from Southeast Asia, the Pacific area and Africa. Strong P strains were found sporadically in several populations in Japan. Few strong M strains were observed. Q strains were present at a high frequency in most populations. Thus, most populations in these areas were regarded as Q populations. The distribution of the P element and the evolution of P, Q and M populations are also discussed.
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- E T Matsuura
- Department of Biology, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan
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Handler AM, Gomez SP, O'Brochta DA. Negative regulation of P element excision by the somatic product and terminal sequences of P in Drosophila melanogaster. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1993; 237:145-51. [PMID: 8384289 DOI: 10.1007/bf00282795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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A transient in vivo P element excision assay was used to test the regulatory properties of putative repressor-encoding plasmids in Drosophila melanogaster embryos. The somatic expression of an unmodified transposase transcription unit under the control of a heat shock gene promoter (phs pi) effectively repressed P excision in a dose-dependent manner at very low concentrations relative to somatically active transposase (encoded by the hs pi delta 2-3 gene). Maximum repression required transcription of the complete transposase gene. Dose-dependent repression of P excision was also observed in the presence of a vector plasmid (pCarnegie4) having only the terminal sequences, including transposase binding sites, of the P element. However, repression required considerably higher concentrations of pCarnegie4 than phs pi, and elimination of P excision was not observed.
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- A M Handler
- Insect Attractants, Behavior and Basic Biology Research Laboratory Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, Florida 32608
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The P family of transposable genetic elements is thought to be a recent addition to the Drosophila melanogaster genome. New evidence suggests that the elements came from another Drosophila species, possibly carried by parasitic mites. The transposition mechanism of P elements involves DNA gap repair which may have facilitated their rapid spread through D. melanogaster worldwide. These results provide new insight into the process of a transposon's invasion into a new species and the potential risk of extinction such an invasion might entail.
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- W R Engels
- Genetics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706
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Houck MA, Clark JB, Peterson KR, Kidwell MG. Possible horizontal transfer of Drosophila genes by the mite Proctolaelaps regalis. Science 1991; 253:1125-8. [PMID: 1653453 DOI: 10.1126/science.1653453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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There is strong inferential evidence for recent horizontal gene transfer of the P (mobile) element to Drosophila melanogaster from a species of the Drosophila willistoni group. One potential vector of this transfer is a semiparasitic mite, Proctolaelaps regalis DeLeon, whose morphology, behavior, and co-occurrence with Drosophila are consistent with the properties necessary for such a vector. Southern blot hybridization, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification, and DNA sequencing showed that samples of P. regalis associated with a P strain of D. melanogaster carried P element sequences. Similarly, Drosophila ribosomal DNA sequences were identified in P. regalis samples that had been associated with Drosophila cultures. These results have potentially important evolutionary implications, not only for understanding the mechanisms by which genes may be transferred between reproductively isolated species, but also for improved detection of some host-parasite and predator-prey relationships.
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- M A Houck
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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Heath EM, Simmons MJ. Genetic and molecular analysis of repression in the P-M system of hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Genet Res (Camb) 1991; 57:213-26. [PMID: 1653752 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300029360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Twelve inbred lines derived from an M' strain of Drosophila melanogaster were used to study the repression of P-element-mediated hybrid dysgenesis. Initial assessments indicated that the lines differed in the ability to repress gonadal dysgenesis, and that this ability was highly correlated with the ability to repress snw hypermutability. Later assessments indicated that most of the lines with low or intermediate repression potential evolved to a state of higher repression potential; however, Southern analyses failed to reveal significant changes in the array of genomic P elements that could account for this evolution. In addition, none of the lines possessed the incomplete P element known as KP, which has been proposed to explain repression in some D. melanogaster strains. One of the lines maintained intermediate repression potential throughout the period of study (52 generations), indicating that the intermediate condition was not intrinsically unstable. Genetic analyses demonstrated that in some of the lines, repression potential was influenced by factors that were inherited maternally through at least two generations; however, these factors were not as influential as those in a classic P cytotype strain. Additional tests with a dysgenesis-inducing X chromosome called T-5 indicated that repression itself was mediated by a combination of maternal effects and paternally inherited factors that were expressed after fertilization. These tests also suggested that in some circumstances, the P transposase, or its message, might be transmitted through the maternal cytoplasm.
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- E M Heath
- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Minnesota, St Paul 55108-1095
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Gamo S, Sakajo M, Ikeda K, Inoue YH, Sakoyama Y, Nakashima-Tanaka E. Temporal distribution of P elements in Drosophila melanogaster strains from natural populations in Japan. IDENGAKU ZASSHI 1990; 65:277-85. [PMID: 2174247 DOI: 10.1266/jjg.65.277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Genetic and molecular investigations were carried out with 10 Japanese Drosophila melanogaster strains on P-M system of hybrid dysgenesis. The strains used here were collected in the years from 1952 to 1984 from various natural populations, and have been maintained in our laboratory. The whole genomic Southern hybridization was performed by using the 2.9-kb P element and the internal fragments as probes. Five strains possessed no P element copy and the other 5 strains possessed mainly incomplete P elements which had internal deletions. The former 5 strains were M, 2 of the latter were Q, and the remaining 3 were M' strains. Hikone-R, collected in 1952, had no P element copy, while Hikone-H, collected in 1957, was the earliest observed to possess multicopies of an incomplete P element. This revealed that P elements in Drosophila melanogaster were present more than 30 years ago in Japan, as already shown to have been the case on the American continent.
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- S Gamo
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Osaka Prefecture, Sakai, Japan
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Biémont C, Ronsseray S, Anxolabéhère D, Izaabel H, Gautier C. Localization of P elements, copy number regulation, and cytotype determination in Drosophila melanogaster. Genet Res (Camb) 1990; 56:3-14. [PMID: 2172082 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300028822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Seventeen highly-inbred lines of Drosophila melanogaster extracted from an M' strain (in the P/M system of hybrid dysgenesis) were studied for their cytotype and the number and chromosomal location of complete and defective P elements. While most lines were of M cytotype, three presented a P cytotype (the condition that represses P-element activity) and one was intermediate between M and P. All lines were found to possess KP elements and only eight to bear full-sized P elements. Only the lines with full-sized P elements showed detectable changes in their P-insertion pattern over generations; their rates of gain and of loss of P-element sites were equal to 0.12 and 0.09 per genome, per generation, respectively. There was no correlation between these two rates within lines, suggesting independent transpositions and excisions in the inbred genomes. The results of both Southern blot analysis and in situ hybridization of probes made from left and right sides of the P element strongly suggested the presence of a putative complete P element in region 1A of the X chromosome in the three lines with a P cytotype; the absence of P copy in this 1A region in lines with an M cytotype, favours the hypothesis that the P element inserted in 1A could play a major role in the P-cytotype determination. Insertion of a defective 2 kb P element was also observed in region 93F in 9 of the 13 M lines. The regulation of the P-element copy number in our lines appeared not to be associated with the ratio of full-length and defective P elements.
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- C Biémont
- Biometry-Genetics and Population Biology Laboratory, University Claude-Bernard, Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
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Harris LJ, Prasad S, Rose AM. Isolation and sequence analysis of Caenorhabditis briggsae repetitive elements related to the Caenorhabditis elegans transposon Tc1. J Mol Evol 1990; 30:359-69. [PMID: 2161057 DOI: 10.1007/bf02101890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We have identified two repetitive element families in the genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae with extensive sequence identity to the Caenorhabditis elegans transposable element Tc1. Five members each of the TCb1 (previously known as Barney) and TCb2 families were isolated by hybridization to a Tc1 probe. Tc1-hybridizing repetitive elements were grouped into either the TCb1 or TCb2 family based on cross-hybridization intensities among the C. briggsae elements. The genomic copy number of the TCb1 family is 15 and the TCb2 family copy number is 33 in the C. briggsae strain G16. The two transposable element families show numerous genomic hybridization pattern differences between two C. briggsae strains, suggestive of transpositional activity. Two members of the TCb1 family, TCb1#5 and TCb1#10, were sequenced. Each of these two elements had suffered an independent single large deletion. TCb1#5 had a 627-bp internal deletion and TCb1#10 had lost 316 bp of one end. The two sequenced TCb1 elements were highly conserved over the sequences they shared. A 1616-bp composite TCb1 element was constructed from TCb1#5 and TCb1#10. The composite TCb1 element has 80-bp terminal inverted repeats with three nucleotide mismatches and two open reading frames (ORFs) on opposite strands. TCb1 and the 1610-bp Tc1 share 58% overall nucleotide sequence identity, and the greatest similarity occurs in their ORF1 and inverted repeat termini.
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- L J Harris
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Mori I, Moerman DG, Waterston RH. Interstrain crosses enhance excision of Tc1 transposable elements in Caenorhabditis elegans. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1990; 220:251-5. [PMID: 2157953 DOI: 10.1007/bf00260490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We report here an unusual activation of the Tc1 transposable element system in Caenorhabditis elegans. Germline Tc1 activity, as measured by reversion of unc-22::Tc1 alleles, is elevated 50- to 100-fold by certain crosses. For example, unc-22::Tc1 reversion is 1 x 10(-3) in a mut-6 IV strain and less than 1 x 10(-6) in a non-mutator strain, but in the unc-22::Tc1 progeny of a cross between mut-6 hermaphrodites and non-mutator males, reversion is 10(-1). The reciprocal cross does not induce this enhancement of reversion. Results similar to those for mut-6 were obtained using a mut-5 II strain. The mutator hermaphrodite by nonmutator male cross per se is not required for the enhancement of reversion, as mut-5 hermaphrodites x mut-6/+ males also induce unc-22 revertants at an elevated frequency. This reversion enhancement appears to depend on a maternal component inherited from a mutator strain, suggesting that the regulation of Tc1 activity may be complex.
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- I Mori
- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
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Pignatelli PM, Mackay TF. Hybrid dysgenesis-induced response to selection in Drosophila melanogaster. Genet Res (Camb) 1989; 54:183-95. [PMID: 2559871 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300028640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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In Drosophila melanogaster, the P-M and I-R systems of hybrid dysgenesis are associated with high rates of transposition of P and I elements, respectively, in the germlines of dysgenic hybrids formed by crossing females of strains without active elements to males of strains containing them. Transposition rates are not markedly accelerated in the reciprocal, nondysgenic hybrids. Previous attempts to evaluate the extent to which hybrid dysgenesis-mediated P transposition contributes to mutational variance for quantitative characters by comparing the responses to selection of P-M dysgenic and nondysgenic hybrids have given variable results. This experimental design has been extended to include an additional quantitative trait and the I-R hybrid dysgenesis system. The selection responses of lines founded from both dysgenic and nondysgenic crosses showed features that would be expected from the increase in frequency of initially rare genes with major effects on the selected traits. These results differ from those of previous experiments which showed additional selection response only in lines started from dysgenic crosses, and can be explained by the occasional occurrence of large effect transposable element-induced polygenic mutations in both dysgenic and nondysgenic selection lines. High rates of transposition in populations founded from nondysgenic crosses may account for the apparently contradictory results of the earlier selection experiments, and an explanation is proposed for its occurrence.
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Jackson MS, Black DM, Dover GA. Amplification of KP elements associated with the repression of hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 1988; 120:1003-13. [PMID: 2852140 PMCID: PMC1203564 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/120.4.1003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Mobile P elements in Drosophila melanogaster cause hybrid dysgenesis if their mobility is not repressed. One type of repression, termed P cytotype, is a complex interaction between chromosomes carrying P elements and cytoplasm and is transmitted through the cytoplasm only of females. Another type of repression is found in worldwide M' strains that contain approximately 30 copies per individual of one particular P element deletion-derivative termed the KP element. This repression is transmitted equally through both sexes. In the present study we show that biparentally transmitted repression increases in magnitude together with a rapid increase in KP copy-number in genotypes starting with one or a few KP elements and no other deletion-derivatives. Such correlated increases in repression and KP number per genome occur only in the presence of complete P elements, supporting the interpretation that they are probably a consequence of the selective advantage enjoyed by flies carrying the highest numbers of KP elements. Analysis of Q strains also reveals the presence of qualitative differences in the way the repression of dysgenesis is transmitted. In general, Q strains not containing KP elements have the P cytotype mode of repression, whereas Q strains with KP elements transmit repression through both sexes. This difference among Q strains further supports the existence of at least two types of repression of P-induced hybrid dysgenesis in natural populations of D. melanogaster.
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- M S Jackson
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, England
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Mori I, Moerman DG, Waterston RH. Analysis of a mutator activity necessary for germline transposition and excision of Tc1 transposable elements in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 1988; 120:397-407. [PMID: 2848746 PMCID: PMC1203519 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/120.2.397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The Tc1 transposable element family of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans consists primarily of 1.6-kb size elements. This uniformity of size is in contrast to P in Drosophila and Ac/Ds in maize. Germline transposition and excision of Tc1 are detectable in the Bergerac (BO) strain, but not in the commonly used Bristol (N2) strain. A previous study suggested that multiple genetic components are responsible for the germline Tc1 activity of the BO strain. To analyze further this mutator activity, we derived hybrid strains between the BO strain and the N2 strain. One of the hybrid strains exhibits a single locus of mutator activity, designated mut-4, which maps to LGI. Two additional mutators, mut-5 II and mut-6 IV, arose spontaneously in mut-4 harboring strains. This spontaneous appearance of mutator activity at new sites suggests that the mutator itself transposes. The single mutator-harboring strains with low Tc1 copy number generated in this study should be useful in investigations of the molecular basis of mutator activity. As a first step toward this goal, we examined the Tc1 elements in these low copy number strains for elements consistently co-segregating with mutator activity. Three possible candidates were identified: none was larger than 1.6 kb.
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- I Mori
- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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Boussy IA, Healy MJ, Oakeshott JG, Kidwell MG. Molecular analysis of the P-M gonadal dysgenesis cline in eastern Australian Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 1988; 119:889-902. [PMID: 2842226 PMCID: PMC1203472 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/119.4.889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The latitudinal cline in P-M gonadal dysgenesis potential in eastern Australia has been shown to comprise three regions which are, from north to south respectively, P, Q, and M, with the P-to-Q and Q-to-M transitions occurring over relatively short distances. The P element complements of 30 lines from different regions of the cline were determined by molecular techniques. The total amount of P element-hybridizing DNA was high in all lines, and it did not correlate in any obvious way with the P-M phenotypes of individual lines. The number of potentially full-sized P elements per genome was high in lines from the P regions, but variable or low among lines from the Q and M regions, and thus declined overall from north to south. A particular P element deletion-derivative, the KP element, occurred in all the tested lines. The number of KP elements was low in lines from the P region, much higher in lines from the Q region, and highest among lines from the M region, thus forming a cline reciprocal to that of the full-sized P elements. Another transposable element, hobo, which has been described as causing dysgenic traits similar to those of P-M hybrid dysgenesis, was shown to be present in all lines and to vary among them in number, but not in any latitudinal pattern. The P-M cline in gonadal dysgenesis potential can be inferred to be based on underlying clinal patterns of genomic P element complements. P activity of a line was positively correlated with the number of full-sized P elements in the line, and negatively correlated with the number of KP elements. Among Q and M lines, regulatory ability was not correlated with numbers of KP elements.
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- I A Boussy
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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Kidwell MG, Kimura K, Black DM. Evolution of hybrid dysgenesis potential following P element contamination in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 1988; 119:815-28. [PMID: 2842225 PMCID: PMC1203468 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/119.4.815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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P elements were introduced into M strain genomes by chromosomal contamination (transposition) from P strain chromosomes under conditions of P-M hybrid dysgenesis. A number of independently maintained contaminated lines were subsequently monitored for their ability to induce gonadal (GD) sterility in the progeny of reference crosses, over a period of 60 generations, in two experiments. The efficiency of chromosomal contamination was high; all tested lines acquired P elements following the association of M and P chromosomes in the same genome for a single generation. All the contaminated lines also sustained an initial unstable phase, marked by high frequencies of transposition and sterility within lines, in the absence of P element regulation. Subsequently, each of the lines rapidly evolved to one of three relatively stable strain types whose phenotypic and molecular properties correspond rather closely to those of the P, Q and M' strains that have previously been characterized. The numbers and structures of P elements and the presence or absence of P element regulation during the early generations appeared to be critical factors determining the subsequent course of evolution. On the basis of GD sterility frequencies, both the mean level of P activity, and the average capacity for P element regulation, were reduced in lines raised at 25 degrees, relative to those raised at 20 degrees, during the early generations. This latter result is consistent with the expectation that natural selection will tend to modify the manifestation of dysgenic traits, such as high temperature sterility, which cause a reduction of fitness. However, overall, stochastic factors appeared to predominate in determining the course of evolution of individual lines.
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- M G Kidwell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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Lansman RA, Shade RO, Grigliatti TA, Brock HW. Evolution of P transposable elements: sequences of Drosophila nebulosa P elements. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1987; 84:6491-5. [PMID: 2819880 PMCID: PMC299103 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.84.18.6491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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P elements have been cloned and sequenced from Drosophila nebulosa. Their sequences have diverged less than 6% from P elements of Drosophila melanogaster. However D. nebulosa P elements have nucleotide changes that close all four open reading frames found in the D. melanogaster P element. Microinjection experiments show that D. nebulosa P elements cannot provide transposase function for D. melanogaster P elements, nor are D. nebulosa P elements mobilized by the transposase provided by a D. melanogaster P factor. Three D. nebulosa P elements appear to have integrated into the same position of a complex, centromeric repeated sequence. Comparison of nucleotide sequences suggests that D. nebulosa P elements have diverged upon different pathways from a common ancestor that was 99% homologous to the P elements of D. melanogaster.
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Boussy IA, Kidwell MG. The P-M hybrid dysgenesis cline in Eastern Australian Drosophila melanogaster: discrete P, Q and M regions are nearly contiguous. Genetics 1987; 115:737-45. [PMID: 3108075 PMCID: PMC1203106 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/115.4.737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The dramatic latitudinal cline in P-M hybrid dysgenesis characteristics along the east coast of Australia is not smooth. Tests of recent collections of Drosophila melanogaster from the southeastern coast define the previously described cline as comprising three discrete, apparently contiguous regions of P, Q and M phenotypes, respectively. Northern populations from Cairns (16.9 degrees SLat) to Ourimbah (33.4 degrees SLat) are phenotypically P; populations from Wollongong (34.4 degrees SLat) to Eden (37.1 degrees SLat) are Q; and populations from Genoa (37.5 degrees SLat) to Cygnet (43.2 degrees SLat) are M. The decline in P activity from northern Queensland (55-60% gonadal dysgenesis (GD) in cross A) to mid-New South Wales (20-30% GD in cross A) is gradual; proceeding south, there then is a sharp drop to Q populations (less than 10% GD in crosses A and A*). This drop in P activity occurs in only 150 km, across the urban and suburban area of Sydney. Q populations are then found south to Eden, but Genoa, only about 50 km further southeast, is clearly M (48% GD in cross A*), as are two populations further south. The two discontinuities in the P-M cline do not correspond to obvious climatic differences along the coast, nor to obvious barriers to dispersal of D. melanogaster. The cline has apparently not moved between 1983 and 1985-1986.
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Daniels SB, Clark SH, Kidwell MG, Chovnick A. Genetic transformation of Drosophila melanogaster with an autonomous P element: phenotypic and molecular analyses of long-established transformed lines. Genetics 1987; 115:711-23. [PMID: 3034720 PMCID: PMC1203104 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/115.4.711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Following transformation of a Drosophila melanogaster true M strain with an autonomous P element, six lines were established and monitored for their molecular and phenotypic properties during a 4-yr period. The number of P elements increased with time in all the lines but the rate of increase differed among lines. Furthermore, degenerate elements arose in each of the lines during propagation. By the end of the 4th yr, the total number of elements in every line was similar to that of a very strong P strain.--At the phenotypic level, all of the transformed lines evolved high P activity, but only three developed complete or nearly complete regulatory ability. The other three lines attained only intermediate levels of regulation over the 4-yr period. One of these lines was particularly noteworthy. Although it contained as many as 55 P elements per genome (20 of which were potentially complete) and had extremely high P activity potential, it continued to exhibit limited regulatory ability. In addition, when females of this line were maintained at high temperatures, the ability to suppress P activity was even further diminished. A strain with this combination of molecular and phenotypic properties, in an apparently stable configuration, has not been previously described.--The results are discussed in the context of the possible role of degenerate elements in regulating P element expression.
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Boussy IA. A latitudinal cline in P-M gonadal dysgenesis potential in Australian Drosophila melanogaster populations. Genet Res (Camb) 1987; 49:11-8. [PMID: 3032742 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300026677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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SummaryIsofemale lines ofDrosophila melanogasterfrom six localities along the east coast of Australia, spanning 2900 km and 26 degrees of latitude, were assayed for their gonadal dysgenesis characteristics in theP–Msystem of hybrid dysgenesis. A strong clinal pattern with latitude was discovered. From north to south, the first two populations were typical strongPpopulations, and the next population was moderateP. The next population to the south was neutral (Q), with some weakPand weakMcharacteristics. The two southernmost populations were typicalMpopulations. Much variance inPactivity inPpopulations and in susceptibility toPactivity inMpopulations was detected among isofemale lines. This clinal pattern with latitude of theP–Msystem is paralleled by similar clinal patterns for frequencies of common cosmopolitan inversions and of certain allozymes in Australia. A model of introductions of flies with different characteristics in the north and south could account for theP–Mclinal pattern, but cannot account for an intermediateQpopulation, nor establish the inversion and isoenzyme dines at the same time. Current models of transposable element population dynamics are limited to single population dynamics, and are therefore inadequate for these clinal data.
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Kocur GJ, Drier EA, Simmons MJ. Sterility and hypermutability in the P-M system of hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 1986; 114:1147-63. [PMID: 3100389 PMCID: PMC1203033 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/114.4.1147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Inbred wild strains of Drosophila melanogaster derived from the central and eastern United States were used to make dysgenic hybrids in the P-M system. These strains possessed P elements and the P cytotype, the condition that represses P element transposition. Their hybrids were studied for the mutability of the P element insertion mutation, snw, and for the incidence of gonadal dysgenesis (GD) sterility. All the strains tested were able to induce hybrid dysgenesis by one or both of these assays; however, high levels of dysgenesis were rare. Sets of X chromosomes and autosomes from the inbred wild strains were more effective at inducing GD sterility than were sets of Y chromosomes and autosomes. In two separate analyses, GD sterility was positively correlated with snw mutability, suggesting a linear relationship. However, one strain appeared to induce too much GD sterility for its level of snw destabilization, indicating an uncoupling of these two manifestations of hybrid dysgenesis.
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Green MM, Todo T, Ryo H, Fujikawa K. Genetic-molecular basis for a simple Drosophila melanogaster somatic system that detects environmental mutagens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1986; 83:6667-71. [PMID: 3092217 PMCID: PMC386570 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.83.18.6667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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We have developed a simple, objectively scorable test for the mutagenicity of chemical compounds which can be fed Drosophila melanogaster. The test depends upon the somatic reversion of the X chromosome, recessive eye color mutation, white-ivory (wi) to wild type (w+). Reversions are scored as clones of w+ facets in the wi eyes of eclosing adults. To increase the sensitivity, a tandem quadruplication containing four wi mutations was synthesized. Thus, in homozygous females eight wi mutations are potentially revertible. Six mutagenic compounds, all alkylating agents, all gave positive results at several concentrations tested. Molecular analysis demonstrates that the induced reversions, germinal and somatic, are associated with the loss of 2.9-kilobase DNA duplicated in the wi mutation.
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