The mariner transposable element in the Drosophilidae family

Brunet, Frédéric; Godin, F.; David, Jean R.; Capy, Pierre

doi:10.1038/hdy.1994.185

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“…Such a phenomenon has been reported between D. bifasciata and D. imaii (Haring et al, 1995), the species of simulans complex (Lachaise et al, 1988), the species of the groups willistoni (reviewed by Bock, 1984) and saltans (Bicudo, 1973(Bicudo, , 1979Bicudo and Prioli, 1978) and, D. serido and D. buzzatii (Madi-Ravazzi et al, 1997). This may explain the sequence similarity of TEs between closely related species observed by several authors (Brunet et al, 1994;Haring et al, 1995;Silva and Kidwell, 2000;Almeida and Carareto, 2005). In such a case, an analysis of mitochondrial DNA polymorphism could be useful to confirm the introgression.…”

Section: Horizontal Transfer Of Tes Inmentioning

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Revisiting horizontal transfer of transposable elements in Drosophila

2008

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Horizontal transfer (HT), defined as the transfer of genetic material between species, is considered to be an essential step in the 'life cycle' of transposable elements. We present a broad overview of suspected cases of HT of transposable elements in Drosophila. Hundred-one putative events of HT have been proposed in Drosophila for 21 different elements (5.0% refer to non-long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons, 42.6% to LTR retrotransposons and 52.4% to DNA transposons). We discuss the methods used to infer HT, their limits and the putative vectors of transposable elements. We outline all the alternative hypotheses and ask how we can be almost certain that phylogenetic inconsistencies are due to HT.

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Section: Horizontal Transfer Of Tes Inmentioning

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Revisiting horizontal transfer of transposable elements in Drosophila

2008

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“…The mariner element was first described in D. mauritiana (Jacobson, Medhora & Harlt, 1986) and has also been detected in many other species of the family Drosophilidae (Maruyama & Hartl, 1991a;Brunet et al, 1994). Outside the Drosophilidae, mariner has been found in Lepidoptera (Hyalophora cecropia, Lidholm, Gudmundsson & Boman, 1991), in Neuroptera (Chrysoperla plorabunda, Robertson, Lampe & MacLeod, 1992), in several species of Hymenoptera (Robertson, 1993;Bigot et al, 1994), in nematodes (Caenorhabditis elegans, Sulston et al, 1992), in a Platyhelminth (Dugesia tigrina, Garcia-Fernandez et al, 1993), in terrestrial isopods (Armadillidium vulgare and Porcelliopetiti, Capy & Rigaud, unpublished results) and, more recently, in a plant pathogenic fungus (Fusarium oxysporum, Langin, Capy & Daboussi, 163 1994).…”

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Horizontal transmission versus ancient origin:Mariner in the witness box

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The transposable element mariner has been found in many species of Drosophilidae, several groups of Arthropods, and more recently in Platyhelminthes as well as in a phytopathogenic fungus. In the family Drosophilidae, the distribution of mariner among species shows many gaps, and its geographical distribution among endemic species is restricted to Asia and Africa. Among mariner elements in species within and outside the Drosophilidae, the similarities in nucleotide sequence and the amino acid sequence of the putative transposase reveal many phylogenetic inconsistencies compared with the conventional phylogeny of the host species. This paper discusses the contrasting hypotheses of horizontal transfer versus ancestral origin proposed to explain these results.

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“…However, to understand the origin of transposable elements and how they are lost or gained by species and the role they play in genome evolution there is a need for a wide-ranging screening program of those TEs already identified in the Drosophila genomes already sequenced. Some extensive analyses have been made for a number of different Drosophila TEs (see the review by Biémont and Cizeron, 1999), such as the P element family (Stacey et al, 1986;Anxolabéhère and Periquet, 1987;Daniels et al, 1990a;Loreto et al, 1998); I (Bucheton et al, 1986;Stacey et al, 1986); gypsy (Stacey et al, 1986;Heredia et al, 2004); hobo (Daniels et al, 1990b, Loreto et al, 1998; micropia (Almeida et al 2001;; and mariner (Maruyama and Hartl, 1991;Brunet et al, 1994).…”

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“…However, Brunet et al, (1994) used degenerated primers to amplify mariner homologous sequences in some Drosophila species which were first thought not to contain mariner sequences because such sequences had not been detected by the Southern Blot technique. Our results using the degenerated primers described by Robertson and Macleod (1993) The micropia TE is a representative of a family of transposable elements discovered as constituents of the Y-chromosomal fertility genes of Drosophila hydei (Huijser, et al, 1998).…”

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Transposable elements from the mesophragmatica group of Drosophila

2006

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Transposable elements (TEs) are middle repetitive DNA sequences classified into families according to their sequence similarities, such elements can playing an important role in the evolutionary process of their host genomes. There are many reports on the distribution of TEs in the fruit fly genus Drosophila, although there is relatively little information relating to the Neotropical mesophragmatica group of Drosophila, probably the most typical cluster of species occurring almost exclusively in the Andes mountains. Dot Blot and PCR analyses was used to study the distribution of some TEs (I, mariner, hobo, gypsy, Tom/17.6, micropia and P elements) within the mesophragmatica group of Drosophila. We found gypsy elements in all the mesophragmatica group species studied and mariner elements were absent only from Drosophila pavani but P element homologous sequences were present only in D. pavani and Drosophila gasici and the other TEs (I, hobo, Tom/17.6, micropia) were not found in any of the species investigated.

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The mariner transposable element in the Drosophilidae family

Cited by 35 publications

References 16 publications

Revisiting horizontal transfer of transposable elements in Drosophila

Revisiting horizontal transfer of transposable elements in Drosophila

Horizontal transmission versus ancient origin:Mariner in the witness box

Transposable elements from the mesophragmatica group of Drosophila

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