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Ragagnin GT, Bernardo LP, Loreto EL. Unraveling the evolutionary scenario of the hobo element in populations of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans in South America using the TPE repeats as markers. Genet Mol Biol. 2016;39(1):145-50doi: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2015-0049.
Ragagnin, G. T., Bernardo, L. P., & Loreto, E. L. (2016). Unraveling the evolutionary scenario of the hobo element in populations of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans in South America using the TPE repeats as markers. Genetics and molecular biology, 39(1), 145-50. https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2015-0049
Ragagnin, Geovani T, et al. "Unraveling the evolutionary scenario of the hobo element in populations of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans in South America using the TPE repeats as markers." Genetics and molecular biology vol. 39,1 (2016): 145-50. doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2015-0049
Ragagnin GT, Bernardo LP, Loreto EL. Unraveling the evolutionary scenario of the hobo element in populations of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans in South America using the TPE repeats as markers. Genet Mol Biol. 2016 Mar;39(1):145-50. doi: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2015-0049. PMID: 27007908; PMCID: PMC4807377.
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Genet Mol Biol. 2016 Mar;39(1):145-50. doi: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2015-0049.

Unraveling the evolutionary scenario of the hobo element in populations of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans in South America using the TPE repeats as markers.

Genetics and molecular biology

Geovani T Ragagnin, Larissa P Bernardo, Elgion L S Loreto

Affiliations

  1. Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
  2. Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.

PMID: 27007908 PMCID: PMC4807377 DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2015-0049

Abstract

Transposable elements (TEs) are nucleotide sequences found in most studied genomes. These elements are highly diversified and have a large variation in nucleotide structure and mechanisms of transposition. hobo is a member of class II, belonging to hAT superfamily, described inDrosophila melanogaster, and it presents in its Open Reading Frame, a repetitive region encoding the amino acids threonine-proline-glutamic acid (TPE), which shows variability in the number of repeats in some regions of the world. Due to this variability some evolutionary scenarios of the hobo element are discussed, such as the scenario of the invasion of hobo element in populations ofD. melanogaster. In the present study, we investigated 22 DNA sequences of D. melanogaster and seven sequences ofD. simulans, both from South America, to check the number of repetitions of TPE, in order to clarify the evolutionary scenario of thehobo element in these populations. Our results showed a monomorphism in populations of both species in South America, with only three TPE repeats. Hence, we discuss and propose an evolutionary scenario of the invasion of the hobo element in populations of D. melanogaster and D. simulans.

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