Potentially active copies of the gypsy retroelement are confined to the Y chromosome of some strains of Drosophila melanogaster possibly as the result of the female-specific effect of the flamenco gene.

doi:10.1007/pl00006323

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Potentially active copies of the gypsy retroelement are confined to the Y chromosome of some strains of Drosophila melanogaster possibly as the result of the female-specific effect of the flamenco gene.

Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Apr 1998

Chalvet F, di Franco C, Terrinoni A, Pelisson A, Junakovic N, Bucheton A

Abstract excerpt

Gypsy is an endogenous retrovirus present in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster. This element is mobilized only in the progeny of females which contain active gypsy elements and which are homozygous for permissive alleles of a host gene called flamenco (flam). Some data strongly suggest that g...

Topics

Animals
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genes, Insect
Genotype
Male
Restriction Mapping
Retroelements
Retroviridae
Y Chromosome

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PMID: 9541538
DOI: 10.1007/pl00006323

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