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Aurora, a non-mobile retrotransposon in Drosophila melanogaster heterochromatin.

Molecular & general genetics : MGG ·Vol. 239 ·No. 1-2 ·1993-05-00 ·Pages 205-8

Shevelyov YY

Abstract

A novel retrotransposon, aurora, containing 324 bp long terminal repeats (LTRs) was detected in Drosophila melanogaster as a 5 kb insertion in the heterochromatic Stellate gene. This insertion causes a 5 bp duplication of the integration site. Southern analysis and in situ hybridization data show that all detectable copies of aurora are immobilized in the D. melanogaster heterochromatin. However, mobile copies of aurora were revealed in the cuchromatin of D. simulans. The element was also found in various species of the melanogaster subgroup and in the D. virilis genome.

MeSH Terms

Animals Base Sequence Blotting, Southern DNA DNA Transposable Elements Drosophila melanogaster/genetics Heterochromatin In Situ Hybridization Molecular Sequence Data Restriction Mapping

Chemicals

DNA Transposable Elements Heterochromatin DNA

Authors & Affiliations

1 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Shevelyov Y Y

Department of Animal Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

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Article Info

Journal

Molecular & general genetics : MGG

Abbr.

Mol Gen Genet

ISSN

0026-8925

DOI

10.1007/BF00281619

Published

1993-05-00

Pages

205-8

Language

English

Region

Germany

NLM ID

0125036

Subset

Databases

GENBANK

X70361, X70362

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1007/BF00281619

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