Increased Variation in ADH Enzyme Activity in Drosophila Mutation-accumulation Experiment is Not Due to Transposable Elements at the Adh Structural Gene

Overview

Journal Genetics

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Genetics

Date 1990 Dec 1

PMID 1963870

Citations 4

Authors

C F Aquadro

H Tachida

C H Langley

K Harada

T Mukai

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Abstract

We present here a molecular analysis of the region surrounding the structural gene encoding alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) in 47 lines of Drosophila melanogaster that have each accumulated mutations for 300 generations. While these lines show a significant increase in variation of alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme activity compared to control lines, we found no restriction map variation in a 13-kb region including the complete Adh structural gene and roughly 5 kb of both 5' and 3' sequences. Thus, the rapid accumulation of ADH activity variation after 28,200 allele generations does not appear to have been due to the mobilization of transposable elements into or out of the Adh structural gene region.

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