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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 112, Issue 21, Pages 6659-6663Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1500758112
Keywords
P-element; transposable elements; Drosophila simulans; population genomics; Pool-seq
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- European Research Council
- Austrian Science Funds Fonds zur Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) [P27048]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P27048] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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The P-element is one of the best understood eukaryotic transposable elements. It invaded Drosophila melanogaster populations within a few decades but was thought to be absent from close relatives, including Drosophila simulans. Five decades after the spread in D. melanogaster, we provide evidence that the P-element has also invaded D. simulans. P-elements in D. simulans appear to have been acquired recently from D. melanogaster probably via a single horizontal transfer event. Expression data indicate that the P-element is processed in the germ line of D. simulans, and genomic data show an enrichment of P-element insertions in putative origins of replication, similar to that seen in D. melanogaster. This ongoing spread of the P-element in natural populations provides a unique opportunity to understand the dynamics of transposable element spread and the associated piwi-interacting RNAs defense mechanisms.
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