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Mobile element Gypsy (Mdg4)—Endoparasyte of Drosophila melanogaster: Regulation of transposition and infection characteristics

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By the example of MDG4 (gypsy) of Drosophila melanogaster, characteristics of endogenous invertebrate retroviruses of the errantiviruses class (Errantiviridae, Metaviridae) are analyzed. Ways of the evolution of retroviruses of invertebrates together with possible mechanisms of their origin from retrotransposons via the addition of viral genes from other systematic groups are discussed. It has been demonstrated that the locus flamenco plays an important role in providing the internal immunity against MDG4 (gypsy) in Drosophila melanogaster.

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Original Russian Text © A.I. Kim, 2006, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Biologiya, 2009, No. 2, pp. 26–32.

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Kim, A.I. Mobile element Gypsy (Mdg4)—Endoparasyte of Drosophila melanogaster: Regulation of transposition and infection characteristics. Moscow Univ. Biol.Sci. Bull. 64, 78–83 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0096392509020059

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