Article
High rate of recent transposable element-induced adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster.
PLoS biology - 21 Oct 2008
González Josefa, Lenkov Kapa, Lipatov Mikhail, Macpherson J Michael, Petrov Dmitri A
Abstract excerpt
Although transposable elements (TEs) are known to be potent sources of mutation, their contribution to the generation of recent adaptive changes has never been systematically assessed. In this work, we conduct a genome-wide screen for adaptive TE insertions in Drosophila melanogaster that have taken place during or after the spread of this species out of Africa. We determine population frequencies of 902 of the...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genome, Insect
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction