Genomic distribution of P elements in Drosophila willistoni and a search for their relationship with chromosomal inversions

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 191-198

  Regner, L P ^a   Pereira, M S O ^b   Alonso, C E V ^b   Abdelhay, E ^b   Valente, V L S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029982766     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a022984     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Ashburner M, 1967. Patterns of puffing activity in the salivary gland chromosomes of Drosophila I. Autosomal puffing patterns in a laboratory stock of Drosophila melanogaster. Chromosoma 27:47-63.
2. Bingham PM, Kidwell MG, and Rubin GM, 1982. The molecular basis of P-M hybrid dysgenesis: the role of the P element, a P-strain-specific transposon family. Cell 29:995-1004.
3. Brookfield JFY, Montgomery E, and Langley CH, 1984 Apparent absence of transposable elements related to the P elements of D melanogaster in other species of Drosophila Nature 310:330-332
4. Charlesworth B, 1989. Transposable elements in natural populations of Drosophila In: Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular biology, vol. 36. San Diego: Academic Press; 25-36.
5. Cordeiro AR, Salzano FM, and Marques VB, 1960. An interracial hybridization experiment in natural populations of Drosophila willistoni Heredity 15:35-45.
6. Cordeiro AR and Dobzhansky T, 1954. Combining ability of certain chromosomes in D. willistoni and invalidation of the "wild type" concept. Am Nat 88:75-86.
7. Da Cunha AB, 1956. Differential viability favoring inversion heterozygotes in Drosophila willistoni Evolution 10:7-56.
8. Da Cunha AB, Burla H, and Dobzhansky T, 1950. Adaptive chromosomal polymorphism in Drosophila willistoni. Evolution 4:212-235.
9. Da Cunha AB and Dobzhansky T, 1954 A further study of chromosomal polymorphism of Drosophila willistoni in its relation to the environment. Evolution 8:119-134.
10. Da Cunha AB, Dobzhansky T, Pavlovsky O, and Spassky B, 1959. Genetics of natural populations. XXVIII. Supplementary data on the chromosomal polymorphism in Drosophila willistoni in its relation to the environment. Evolution 13:389-404.
11. Daniels SB and Strausbaugh LD, 1986 The distribution of P-element sequences in Drosophila: the willistoni and saltans species groups. J Mol Evol 23:138-148.
12. Daniels SB, Peterson KR, Strausbaugh LD, Kidwell MG, and Chovnick A, 1990. Evidence of horizontal transmission of the P transposable element between Drosophila species. Genetics 124.339-355.
13. Dobzhansky T, 1950. The chromosomes of Drosophila willistoni. J Heredity 41:156-158.
14. Dobzhansky T, 1957. Genetics of natural populations. XXVI Chromosomal variability in island and continental populations of Drosophila willistoni from Central America and the West Indies. Evolution 11:280-293.
15. Dobzhansky T, Burla H, and Da Cunha AB, 1950. A comparative study of chromosomal polymorphism in sibling species of the willistoni group of Drosophila. Am Nat 84:229-246.
16. Ehrman L and Powell JR, 1982. The Drosophila willistoni species group. In: The genetics and biology of Drosophila, vol. 3b (Ashburner M, Carson HL, and Thompson Jr JN, eds). New York: Academic Press, 193-225.
17. Engels WR, 1983 The P family of transposable elements in Drosophila. Annu Rev Genet 17:315-344
18. Engels WR and Preston CR, 1984. Formation of chromosome rearrangements by P factors in Drosophila Genetics 107:657-678.
19. Engels WR, Preston CR, Thompson P, and Eggleston WB, 1986. The in situ hybridization to Drosophila salivary chromosomes with biotynilated DNA probes and alkaline phosphatase Focus 8:6-8.
20. Fontdevila A, 1992 Genetic instability and rapid speciation: are they coupled? Genetica 86.247-258.
21. Ginzburg LR, Bingnam PM, and You S, 1984. On the theory of speciation induced by transposable elements. Genetics 107:331-341.
22. Houck MA, Clark JB, Peterson KR, and Kidwell MG, 1991. Possible horizontal transfer of Drosophila genes by the mite Proctolaelaps regalis Science 253:1125-1129.
23. Jowett T, 1986. Preparation of nucleic acids. In: Drosophila: a practical approach (Roberts DB, ed). Washington, D.C.: IRL Press; 275-286.
24. Junakovic N, Di Franco C, Barsanti P, and Palumbo G, 1986. Transposition of copia-like nomadic elements can be induced by heat shock. J Mol Evol 24:89-93.
25. Karess RE and Rubin GM, 1984. Analysis of P transposable element functions in Drosophila. Cell 38:135-146.
26. Krimbas CB and Powell JR, 1992. Drosophila inversion polymorphism Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.
27. Kusakabe S, Harada K, and Mukai T, 1990. The rare inversion with a P element at the break point maintained in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetica 82:11-115.
28. Lansman RA, Stacey SN, Grigliatti TA, and Brock HW, 1985. Sequences homologous to the P mobile element of Drosophila melanogaster are widely distributed in the subgenus Sophophora Nature 318:561-563.
29. Lansman RA, Shade RO, Grigliatti TA, and Brock HW, 1987. Evolution of P transposable elements: sequences of Drosophila nebulosa P elements. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 84:6491-6495.
30. Lim JK, 1988. Intrachromosomal rearrangements mediated by hobo transposons in Drosophila melanogaster Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 85:9153-9157.
31. Lyttle TW and Haymer DS, 1992. The role of the transposable element hobo in the origin of endemic inversions in wild populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetica 86:113-126.
32. O'Brochta DA and Handler AM, 1988. Mobility of P elements in drosophilids and nondrosophilids. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 85:6052-6056.
33. O'Hare K and Rubin GM, 1983. Structure of P transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster and their sites of insertion and excision. Cell 34:25-35
34. Rose PR and Doolittle WF, 1983. Molecular biological mechanisms of speciation. Science 220:157-162
35. Sinclair DAR and Grigliatti TA, 1985 investigation of the nature of P-induced male recombination in Drosophila melanogaster Genetics 110:257-279.
36. Sniegowski P and Charlesworth B, 1994. Transposable element numbers in cosmopolitan inversions from a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster Genetics 137 815-827.
37. Sperlich D and Pfriem P, 1986. Chromosomal polymorphism in natural and experimental populations. In: The genetics and biology of Drosophila Vol. 3c (Ashburner M, Carson HL, and Thompson Jr JM, eds). New York: Academic Press; 257-309
38. Spradling AC and Rubin GM, 1983. The effect of chromosomal position on the expression of the Drosophila xantine dehydrogenase gene Cell 34:47-57
39. Strand DJ and McDonald JF, 1985. Copia is transcriptionally responsive to environmental stress. Nucleic Acids Res 13:4401-4410.
40. Valente VLS and Morales NB, 1985. New inversions and qualitative description of inversion heterozygotes in natural populations of Drosophila willistoni inhabiting two different regions in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Rev Bras Gen 8.167-173.