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In studies on the highly repetitive DNA sequences of the flesh flySarcophaga bullata, a 279 bp tandem repeat was cloned and sequenced. A 17 bp stretch within the clone was identical to a motif repeated five times in the satellite DNA of the Bermuda land crab. Southern DNA blotting showed the tandem repeat had a high degree of conservation of MboI sites, but had divergence for EcoRI sites; thus, all repeat units were not identical. The cloned DNA localized to the quinacrine-bright centromeric heterochromatin of the C and E autosomes and to sites on the chromosomal arms. In cases of asynapsis of homologs, the probe localized to euchromatic sites on both homologs or sometimes only on one homolog. The probe also localized near, to, or at a major developmental puff (B9). We conclude that blocks of this short interspersed repetitive DNA occur throughout theSarcophaga genome in both heterochromatin and euchromatin, and also that the variable position of these sequences suggests they possess a degree of instability.
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Hershfield, B., Swift, H. Characterization of a tandemly repeated DNA from the fleshflySarcophaga bullata . Chromosoma 99, 125–130 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01735328
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