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SUBMITTER: Nascimento AML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7236489 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nascimento Ana M L AML Silva Bráulio S M L BSML Svartman Marta M Kuhn Gustavo C S GCS
Genetics and molecular biology 20200101 2
The "cut-and-paste" P-element present in some Diptera illustrates two important transposable elements abilities: to move within genomes and to be transmitted between non-mating species, a phenomenon known as horizontal transposon transfer (HTT). Recent studies reported a HTT of the P-element from Drosophila melanogaster to D. simulans. P-elements first appeared in D. simulans European samples collected in 2006 and spread across several populations from Europe, Africa, North America and Japan wit ...[more]