ArticleGenome biology2009
Widespread evidence for horizontal transfer of transposable elements across Drosophila genomes.
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- Spoink, a LTR retrotransposon, invaded D. melanogaster populations in the 1990s.PLoS genetics · 2024Article
- Jack of all trades versus master of one: how generalist versus specialist strategies of transposable elements relate to their horizontal transfer between lineages.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2023Review
- Transposable Elements Shape the Genome Diversity and the Evolution of Noctuidae Species.Genes · 2023Article
- Horizontal Transposon Transfer and Their Ecological Drivers: The Case of Flower-breeding Drosophila.Genome biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Transposons and non-coding regions drive the intrafamily differences of genome size in insects.iScience · 2022Article
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- Monitoring Insect Transposable Elements in Large Double-Stranded DNA Viruses Reveals Host-to-Virus and Virus-to-Virus Transposition.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
- Interrogating the 5'UTR tandem repeats of retrotransposon roo of Drosophila about horizontal transfer.Genetica · 2021Article
- Tirant Stealthily Invaded Natural Drosophila melanogaster Populations during the Last Century.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundHorizontal transfer (HT) could play an important role in the long-term persistence of transposable elements (TEs) because it provides them with the possibility to avoid the checking effects of host-silencing mechanisms and natural selection, which would eventually drive their elimination from the genome. However, despite the increasing evidence for HT of TEs, its rate of occurrence among the TE pools of model eukaryotic organisms is still unknown.
resultsWe have extracted and compared the nucleotide sequences of all potentially functional autonomous TEs present in the genomes of Drosophila melanogaster, D. simulans and D. yakuba - 1,436 insertions classified into 141 distinct families - and show that a large fraction of the families found in two or more species display levels of genetic divergence and within-species diversity that are significantly lower than expected by assuming copy-number equilibrium and vertical transmission, and consistent with a recent origin by HT. Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons form nearly 90% of the HT cases detected. HT footprints are also frequent among DNA transposons (40% of families compared) but rare among non-LTR retroelements (6%). Our results suggest a genomic rate of 0.04 HT events per family per million years between the three species studied, as well as significant variation between major classes of elements.
conclusionsThe genome-wide patterns of sequence diversity of the active autonomous TEs in the genomes of D. melanogaster, D. simulans and D. yakuba suggest that one-third of the TE families originated by recent HT between these species. This result emphasizes the important role of horizontal transmission in the natural history of Drosophila TEs.
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