Article
Accumulation of transposable elements in laboratory lines of Drosophila melanogaster.
Genetica - 1 Jan 1997
Nuzhdin S V, Pasyukova E G, Mackay T F
Abstract excerpt
It is recognized that a stable number of transposable element (TE) copies per genome is maintained in natural populations of D. melanogaster as a result of the dynamic equilibrium between transposition to new sites and natural selection eliminating copies. The force of natural selection opposing...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Laboratory
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Genome
- In Situ Hybridization
- Mutation
- Selection, Genetic