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I elements of Drosophila melanogaster generate specific chromosomal rearrangements during transposition

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We report a detailed molecular analysis of three chromosomal rearrangements, which have been produced during I-R hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. They all disrupt the yellow gene. One of them is a deletion; the other two are inversions, which may be interpreted as the results of recombination events between I elements inserted at their break points. These events appear to occur at the time of transposition and involve integrating rather than resident I elements. They are produced by a mechanism very similar to homologous ectopic recombination.

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  1. Isabelle Busseau & Alain Bucheton

    Present address: Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, F-91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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    Isabelle Busseau, Alain Pelisson & Alain Bucheton

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Busseau, I., Pelisson, A. & Bucheton, A. I elements of Drosophila melanogaster generate specific chromosomal rearrangements during transposition. Molec Gen Genet 218, 222–228 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00331272

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