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Distribution and evolution of mobile elements in the virilis species group of Drosophila.
Chromosoma - 1 Dec 1999
Zelentsova H, Poluectova H, Mnjoian L, Lyozin G, Veleikodvorskaja V, Zhivotovsky L, Kidwell M G, Evgen'ev M B
Abstract excerpt
The distributions of Penelope and Ulysses, two transposable elements that can induce hybrid dysgenesis, were studied in several species groups of Drosophila. No significant hybridization to Penelope and Ulysses probes was detected by Southern blot analyses of species outside the virilis group. In contrast, both element families have had a long residence in all species of the virilis species group, as indicated by...
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