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GENETICS
Volume 172, Issue 3, Pages 1675-1681Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.050336
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM071926, GM071926] Funding Source: Medline
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The fraction of the genome associated with male reproduction in Drosophila may be unusually dynamic. For example, male reproduction-related genes show higher-than-average rates of protein divergence and gene expression evolution compared to most Drosophila genes. Drosophila male reproduction may also be enriched for novel genetic functions. Our earlier work, based oil accessory, gland protein genes (Acp's) in D. simulans and D. melanogaster; suggested that the melanogaster subgroup Acp's may be lost and/or gained oil a relatively rapid timescale. Here we investigate this possibility more thoroughly through description of the accessory gland transcriptome in two melanogaster subgroup species, D. yakuba and D. erecta. A genomic analysis of previously unknown genes isolated from cDNA libraries of these species revealed several cases of genes present in one or both species, yet absent from ingroup and outgroup species. We found no evidence that these novel genes are attributable primarily to duplication and divergence, which suggests the possibility that Acp's or other genes coding for small proteins may originate from ancestrally noncoding DNA.
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