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Unusual arrangement of the hsp68 locus in the virilis species group of Drosophila implicates evolutionary loss of an hsp68 gene.
Genome - 1 Apr 2005
Velikodvorskaia Vera V, Lyozin Georgii T, Feder Martin E, Evgen'ev Michael B
Abstract excerpt
Unlike all other Drosophila species studied to date, species in the virilis group of Drosophila have 2 complete copies of hsp68 arranged in inverted head-to-head orientation. Evidence for this conclusion includes Southern blots for D. virilis, D. lummei, and D. montana, PCR analysis of the former 2 species, in situ hybridization in D. virilis x D. lummei hybrids, and the complete nucleotide sequence of the locus...
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