The Life Cycle
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Neuroptera
Coleoptera
Hymenoptera
Lepidoptera
Mecoptera
SiphonopteraStrepsiptera
Diptera
~250 Mya
Nematocera
BrachyceraMuscomorpha
CyclorrhaphaSchizophora
CalyptrataAcalyptrata
Camillidae
Steganinae
Cladocheata etc
Zaprionus etc
s.g. Drosophila
Chymomyza etc
s.g. Sophopora
Drosophila melanogaster subgroup
Drosophila melanogaster - cosmopolitan - 1830Drosophila simulans - cosmopolitan - 1919
Drosophila mauritiana - Mauritius - 1974Drosophila sechellia - Seychelles -1981
Drosophila yakuba - Equatorial Africa - 1954Drosophila santomea - Sao Tome - 2000
Drosophila teissieri - Equatorial Africa - 1979
Drosophila erecta - Central West Africa - 1974Drosophila orena - Cameroons - 1978
mel f x sim m sim f x mel m
Viable, sterile f Viable, sterile m
Larval lethal m Embryo lethal f
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AAbb x aaBB
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Hmr allele of melanogaster (transcription factor)Lhr allele of simulans (chromatin binding protein)
“Eventually, the story of the chromosomal mechanisms and itsevolution will have to be entirely rewritten in molecular terms.”
Michael White, 1973, Animal Cytology & Evolution, 2nd edition.
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Paracentric inversions are the most common rearrangement
Segregating in 106 out 183 species. - 57% - (Powell 1997).
22000-56000 inversions have become fixed during the evolution of the genus (Clayton & Guest 1986).
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a b c d e f g h i o n m l k j p q r s t
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12 genomes have been sequenced in the genus 12 genomes have been sequenced in the genus DrosophilaDrosophila
( Cáceres et al. Science 1999 )
Ectopic recombination between homologous fragments of DNA
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centromere telomere3R of D. melanogaster
centromere telomere
3R of D. simulans
BACs
84F1 93F6-7
BACR07M14BACR45A07
BACR16N15BACR42I20BACR08K01
~280 Kb~450 Kb
Inversion-mediated duplications can result from Inversion-mediated duplications can result from staggered isochromatid breaks & repair.staggered isochromatid breaks & repair.
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BLAST-N of D. mel 3R transcripts against D. yak 3R
J. Ranz, C. Bergman & M. Ashburner
Flanking duplications are a common by-productFlanking duplications are a common by-product
of the genome reorganization betweenof the genome reorganization between
D. melanogasterD. melanogaster and and D. yakuba.D. yakuba.
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Large-scale comparison of the gene order betweenLarge-scale comparison of the gene order between
D. melanogasterD. melanogaster and and D. yakuba.D. yakuba.
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1212 2222 99 121255 breakpoints =55 breakpoints = ++ ++ ++ 29 inversions29 inversions
Comparison of total number of breakpoints that correspond to small and gross inversions between D. melanogaster and other flies' genomes
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D. melanogaster is different from H. sapiens.
RIKEN Group and FANTOM Consortium, Antisense transcription in the mammalian transcriptome. Science 2005 309(5740)
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Thanks to:
Jose Ranz (Cambridge).Casey Bergman (Manchester).
Marcin von Grotthuss (Cambridge).Karen Eilbeck & Suzi Lewis (Berkeley).
Lincoln Stein (CSGL) & Richard Durbin (WTGC)Hadi Quesneville (Paris).
The MRC for 25 years of continuous funding.The BBSRC for a grant to Jose.
EMBO for support to Marcin.The Royal Society for a Fellowship to Casey.
Annotated genome
AnnotationD
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Detailed analysis (typically biological)
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Large-scale analysis (typically
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Assemblies from the 12 ongoing Drosophila sequencing projects are available right now
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