Molecular Characterization of Two Natural Hotspots in the Drosophila buzzatii Genome Induced by Transposon Insertions

Table 4.

Frequency of Naturally Occurring Insertions in DifferentDrosophila Species

Species DNA analyzed Frequency of insertions (insertions/kb/chromosome) Reference
D. buzzatii
 2stchromosomes 7.1 kb 0 This study
 2jchromosomes 7.1 kb 0.601 This study
D. melanogaster 578 kb 0.005 Charlesworth and Langley 1991
D. melanogaster 229 kb 0.004 Aquadro 1993
D. simulans 165 kb 0.0005 Aquadro 1993
D. pseudoobscura 32 kb 0 Aquadro 1993
D. ananassae
 forked locus 18 kb 0.004 Stephan and Langley 1989
 vermilion locus 18 kb 0.017 Stephan and Langley 1989

  • ↵For 2st and 2j chromosomes, the length of the single-copy region analyzed by Southern hybridization ofPstI-digested DNA in 2st chromosomes was considered.

  • ↵Only those insertions known to have occurred independently were computed.

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  1. Published in Advance July 12, 2001, doi: 10.1101/gr.174001 Genome Res. 11: 1353-1364

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