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Penelope, a new family of transposable elements and its possible role in hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila virilis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Jan 1997
Evgen'ev M B, Zelentsova H, Shostak N, Kozitsina M, Barskyi V, Lankenau D H, Corces V G
Abstract excerpt
A hybrid dysgenesis syndrome occurs in Drosophila virilis when males from an established laboratory strain are crossed to females obtained from the wild, causing the simultaneous mobilization of several different transposable elements. The insertion sequence responsible for the mutant phenotype of a dysgenic yellow allele has been characterized and named Penelope. In situ hybridization and Southern analyses...
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