Drosophila yakuba
Natural Wolbachia Infections in the Drosophila yakuba Species Complex Do Not Induce Cytoplasmic Incompatibility but Fully Rescue the wRi Modification
... In this study, we report data about the presence of Wolbachia in Drosophila yakuba, D. teissieri, and D. santomea. Wolbachia strains were characterized using their wsp gene sequence and cytoplasmic ...
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Multilocus Analysis of Introgression Between Two Sympatric Sister Species of Drosophila: Drosophila yakuba and D. santomea
... Drosophila yakuba is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, while ...D. yakuba is found mainly in open lowland forests, and ...D. yakuba mtDNA has replaced that of ...
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Genomewide Comparative Analysis of the Highly Abundant Transposable Element DINE-1 Suggests a Recent Transpositional Burst in Drosophila yakuba
... the Drosophila genome derived from transposable ...the Drosophila melanogaster genome (DMG) and is believed to be a relic from an ancient transpositional burst that occurred 5–10 ...the Drosophila ...
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Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting the Difference in Pigmentation Between Drosophila yakuba and D. santomea
... Using quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, we studied the genetic basis of the difference in pig- mentation between two sister species of Drosophila: Drosophila yakuba, which, like other members ...
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Recently Evolved Genes Identified From Drosophila yakuba and D. erecta Accessory Gland Expressed Sequence Tags
... D. yakuba, and D. erecta, is located 1.2 kb 59 of Acp158 in D. yakuba, also in a Pkc53E ...D. yakuba Acp158 region with the putative orthologous region of ...
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Wolbachia in the Drosophila yakuba Complex: Pervasive Frequency Variation and Weak Cytoplasmic Incompatibility, but No Apparent Effect on Reproductive Isolation
... D. yakuba from Bioko and São Tomé, ...D. yakuba on São Tomé, Wolbachia frequencies changed from ...D. yakuba in São ...D. yakuba and D. teissieri were not statistically significant (D. ...
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The four aldehyde oxidases of Drosophila melanogaster have different gene expression patterns and enzyme substrate specificities
... in Drosophila using the available genomic sequencing data covering a total of 12 distinct ...that Drosophila AOX1 originated from an ancient XOR duplication, distinct from the one giving rise to vertebrate ...
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Local Recombination and Mutation Effects on Molecular Evolution in Drosophila
... I studied the cause of the significant difference in the synonymous-substitution pattern found in the achaete-scute complex genes in two Drosophila lineages, higher codon bias in Drosophila yakuba, ...
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Putative origin and function of the intergenic region between COI and COII of Apis mellifera L. mitochondrial DNA.
... any counterpart in Drosophila yakuba mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), arose by tandem duplication. The usual location of length variation in mtDNA control regions prompted[r] ...
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The Genetic Basis of Prezygotic Reproductive Isolation Between Drosophila santomea and D. yakuba Due to Mating Preference
... species, Drosophila yakuba and ...D. yakuba is widespread across sub-Saharan Africa and on islands near the continent, inhabiting open areas such as savannas, montane grass- land, and, in ...
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Deleterious Effects of Neonicotinoid Pesticides on Drosophila melanogaster Immune Pathways
... hierarchy. Drosophila melanogaster is a suitable organism to model the effects of pesticides on the innate immune system of bees as both insects possess homologous nicotinamide acetylcholine receptors (the primary ...
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Infection Dynamics and Immune Response in a Newly Described Drosophila Trypanosomatid Association
... J. drosophilae infects Drosophila larvae, persisting through- out the development of the fly. We developed a per os larval in- fection model to assay the effects of J. drosophilae in Drosophila by exposing ...
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Metagenome Wide Association of Microbial Determinants of Host Phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster
... Functional traits of bacterial panel. To date, research on the function of individual gut microbiota members in D. melanogaster has focused on a few Acetobacteraceae or Lactobacillus species (21, 26–28), despite surveys ...
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Phylogeny of the Genus Drosophila
... Lineages IV–VI mainly contain a number of non-Drosophila genera. Lineage IV is a small clade containing the subgenus Dorsilopha and the genus Styloptera (Figure 3A). It is the sister group of lineages V–IX. ...
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SALIVARY GLAND CHROMOSOMES IN THE TWO RACES OF DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA
... STURTEVANT (1921, 1929) was the first to show, in the case of Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans, that such differences between spe- cies really exist. The th[r] ...
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Thermal adaptation of life history traits in the Drosophila melanogaster group
... phenotypically-plastic and locally-adapted species will respond to changes in temperature. Previous work on the optimal temperature range of D. simulans supports the assumption that there is a wide range of temperatures ...
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Molecular Analysis of EMS-Induced frizzled Mutations in Drosophila melanogaster
... The fizzzkd (4) gene of Drosophila is essential for the development of normal tissue polarity in the adult cuticle of Drosophila. In 4 mutants the parallel array of h[r] ...
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Functional differences between Ultrabithorax protein isoforms in Drosophila melanogaster: evidence from elimination, substitution and ectopic expression of specific isoforms.
... in wild-type Drosophila melanogaster.. GELBART, 1993 Cross regu- lation of decapentaplegic and Ultrabithorax transcription in the embryonic visceral mesoderm of Drosophila. BI[r] ...
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THE CHROMOSOMAL BASIS OF SEXUAL ISOLATION IN TWO SIBLING SPECIES OF DROSOPHILA: D. ARIZONENSIS AND D. MOJAVENSIS
... The interfertile species pair, Drosophila mojauensis and Drosophila arizonensis, was used to obtain male and female flies carrying various interspecific chromosomal combinations.[r] ...
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Development of dendrite polarity in Drosophila neurons
... whether Drosophila and mammalian dendrites have a common microtubule organization during development, we analyzed microtubule polarity in Drosophila dendritic arborization neuron dendrites at different ...
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