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Citation	Richards, S., Liu, Y., Bettencourt, B.R., Hradecky, P., Letovsky, S., Nielsen, R., Thornton, K., Hubisz, M.J., Chen, R., Meisel, R.P., Couronne, O., Hua, S., Smith, M.A., Zhang, P., Liu, J., Bussemaker, H.J., van Batenburg, M.F., Howells, S.L., Scherer, S.E., Sodergren, E., Matthews, B.B., Crosby, M.A., Schroeder, A.J., Ortiz-Barrientos, D., Rives, C.M., Metzker, M.L., Muzny, D.M., Scott, G., Steffen, D., Wheeler, D.A., Worley, K.C., Havlak, P., Durbin, K.J., Egan, A., Gill, R., Hume, J., Morgan, M.B., Miner, G., Hamilton, C., Huang, Y., Waldron, L., Verduzco, D., Clerc-Blankenburg, K.P., Dubchak, I., Noor, M.A., Anderson, W., White, K.P., Clark, A.G., Schaeffer, S.W., Gelbart, W., Weinstock, G.M., Gibbs, R.A. (2005). Comparative genome sequencing of Drosophila pseudoobscura: chromosomal, gene, and cis-element evolution. Genome Res. 15(1): 1--18. (Export to RIS)
FlyBase ID	FBrf0184012
Publication Type	Research paper
PubMed ID	15632085
PubMed Abstract	We have sequenced the genome of a second Drosophila species, Drosophila pseudoobscura, and compared this to the genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster, a primary model organism. Throughout evolution the vast majority of Drosophila genes have remained on the same chromosome arm, but within each arm gene order has been extensively reshuffled, leading to a minimum of 921 syntenic blocks shared between the species. A repetitive sequence is found in the D. pseudoobscura genome at many junctions between adjacent syntenic blocks. Analysis of this novel repetitive element family suggests that recombination between offset elements may have given rise to many paracentric inversions, thereby contributing to the shuffling of gene order in the D. pseudoobscura lineage. Based on sequence similarity and synteny, 10,516 putative orthologs have been identified as a core gene set conserved over 25-55 million years (Myr) since the pseudoobscura/melanogaster divergence. Genes expressed in the testes had higher amino acid sequence divergence than the genome-wide average, consistent with the rapid evolution of sex-specific proteins. Cis-regulatory sequences are more conserved than random and nearby sequences between the species--but the difference is slight, suggesting that the evolution of cis-regulatory elements is flexible. Overall, a pattern of repeat-mediated chromosomal rearrangement, and high coadaptation of both male genes and cis-regulatory sequences emerges as important themes of genome divergence between these species of Drosophila.
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Language of Publication	English
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Publication Type	Journal
Abbreviation	Genome Res.
Title	Genome Research
Publication Year	1995-
ISBN/ISSN	1088-9051
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