ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2015
The recent invasion of natural Drosophila simulans populations by the P-element.
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- The ongoing invasion of the endogenous retrovirus Kuruka in natural Drosophila melanogaster populations.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Structural variants are enriched in deleterious visible phenotypes inGenome research · 2026Article
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- Rapid evolution and comparative analysis of piRNA clusters inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Recent horizontal transfer of transposable elements inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Phylogenetic Relatedness Does not Predict Patterns of Parallel Transcriptome Adaptation in Drosophila.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- The impact of insertion bias into piRNA clusters on the invasion of transposable elements.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Purifying selection shapes the dynamics of P-element invasion in Drosophila simulans populations.Genome biology · 2025Article
- piRNA processing within non-membrane structures is governed by constituent proteins and their functional motifs.The FEBS journal · 2025Review
- On the origin of the P-element invasion in Drosophila simulans.Mobile DNA · 2025Article
- Double trouble: two retrotransposons triggered a cascade of invasions in Drosophila species within the last 50 years.Nature communications · 2025Article
- GenomeDelta: detecting recent transposable element invasions without repeat library.Genome biology · 2024Article
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- Genomes of historical specimens reveal multiple invasions of LTR retrotransposons inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Spoink, a LTR retrotransposon, invaded D. melanogaster populations in the 1990s.PLoS genetics · 2024Article
- Embryonic piRNAs target horizontally transferred vertebrate transposons in assassin bugs.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Article
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- The genomic distribution of transposable elements is driven by spatially variable purifying selection.Nucleic acids research · 2023Article
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Abstract
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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