Somatic Mobilization: High Somatic Insertion Rate of mariner Transposable Element in Drosophila simulans.

ABSTRACT: Although transposable elements (TEs) are usually silent in somatic tissues, they are sometimes mobilized in the soma and can potentially have biological consequences. The mariner element is one of the TEs involved in somatic mobilization (SM) in Drosophila and has a high rate of somatic excision. It is also known that temperature is an important factor in the increase of the mariner element SM in the fly. However, it is important to emphasize that excision is only one step of TE transposition, and the final step in this process is insertion. In the present study, we used an assay based on sequencing of the mariner flanking region and developed a pipeline to identify novel mariner insertions in Drosophila simulans at 20 and 28 °C. We found that flie

SUBMITTER: Cancian M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9144738 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature