Interelement Selection in the Regulatory Region of the copia Retrotransposon |
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Authors: | I King Jordan John F McDonald |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA, US |
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Abstract: | We report the results of an analysis of naturally occurring cis-regulatory variation within and between two families of the
copia Drosophila long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon. The copia 5′ LTR and adjacent untranslated leader region (ULR) consists of a number of well-characterized sequence motifs which play
a role in regulating expression of the element. In order to understand the evolutionary forces which may be responsible for
generating and maintaining copia regulatory sequence variation, we have quantified levels of naturally occurring copia LTR-ULR nucleotide variation and subjected the data to a series of tests of neutrality. Our analysis indicates that the copia LTR-ULR has been subject to negative purifying selection within families and positive adaptive selection between families.
We discuss these findings with respect to the regulatory evolution of retrotransposons and the phenomenon of interelement
selection.
Received: 5 February 1998 / Accepted: 14 May 1998 |
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Keywords: | :Drosophila— copia— Retrotransposons — Regulatory evolution — Selection |
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