Ectoparasitic mites and their Drosophila hosts
Fly, 2017 Only two parasite interactions are known for Drosophila to date: Allantonematid nematodes associated with mycophagous Drosophilids and the ectoparasitic mite Macrocheles subbadius with the Sonoran Desert endemic Drosophila nigrospiracula.
Alejandra Perez-Leanos +3 more
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Evolutionary history of LTR-retrotransposons among 20 Drosophila species
Mobile DNA, 2017 Background The presence of transposable elements (TEs) in genomes is known to explain in part the variations of genome sizes among eukaryotes. Even among closely related species, the variation of TE amount may be striking, as for example between the two ...
Nicolas Bargues, Emmanuelle Lerat
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Anopheline salivary protein genes and gene families: an evolutionary overview after the whole genome sequence of sixteen Anopheles species [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Mosquito saliva is a complex cocktail whose pharmacological properties play an essential role in blood feeding by counteracting host physiological response to tissue injury.
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2012 Background For a long time the presence of respiratory proteins in most insects has been considered unnecessary. However, in recent years it has become evident that globins belong to the standard repertoire of the insect genome.
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Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2006 A short illustrated biography of Marta Erps Breuer (1902-1977), designer and lab technician at the University of São Paulo (Universidade de São Paulo), and a former Bauhaus student, is presented.
Carlos Ribeiro Vilela +1 more
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Genome of Drosophila suzukii, the spotted wing drosophila. [PDF]
, 2013 Drosophila suzukii Matsumura (spotted wing drosophila) has recently become a serious pest of a wide variety of fruit crops in the United States as well as in Europe, leading to substantial yearly crop losses.
Begun, David J +12 more
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CHROMOSOMAL EVOLUTION OF ELEMENTS B AND C IN THE SOPHOPHORA SUBGENUS OF DROSOPHILA: EVOLUTIONARY RATE AND POLYMORPHISM [PDF]
Evolution, 2006 The locations of 77 markers along the chromosomal elements B (41 markers) and C (36 markers) of Drosophila subobscura, D. pseudoobscura, and D. melanogaster were obtained by in situ hybridization on polytene chromosomes. In comparisons between D. subobscura and D.
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The origin of chromosomal inversions as a source of segmental duplications in the Sophophora subgenus of Drosophila [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2016 AbstractChromosomal inversions can contribute to the adaptation of organisms to their environment by capturing particular advantageous allelic combinations of a set of genes included in the inverted fragment and also by advantageous functional changes due to the inversion process itself that might affect not only the expression of flanking genes but ...
Puerma Rodríguez, Eva María +2 more
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Mining the Plant-Herbivore Interface with a Leafmining Drosophila of Arabidopsis [PDF]
, 2014 Experimental infections of Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) with genomically characterized plant pathogens such as Pseudomonas syringae have facilitated the dissection of canonical eukaryotic defence pathways and parasite virulence factors.
Ausubel, Frederick M. +9 more
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Amyrel , a paralogous gene of the amylase gene family in Drosophila melanogaster and the Sophophora subgenus [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1998 We describe a gene from Drosophila melanogaster related to the alpha-amylase gene Amy . This gene, which exists as a single copy, was named Amyrel. It is strikingly divergent from Amy because the amino acid divergence is 40%. The coding sequence
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