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Wolbachia and cytoplasmic incompatibility in mosquitoes

Sinkins, SP, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 34:723-729. 2004.

Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacteria that induce cytoplasmic incompatibility in mosquitoes, and are able to use these patterns of sterility to spread themselves through populations. For this reason they have been proposed as a gene drive system for mosquito genetic ...
Keywords: adaptation, distribution, DNA, elements, Evolution, gene drive ecology, gene drive evolution, gene drive natural, gene-sequences, group-i introns, homing endonuclease, horizontal (lateral) transfer (transmission), identification, intein, phylogenetic analysis, plants, protein-splicing domain, rna, selfish gene, VDE, yeast, yeast saccharomyces-cerevisiae

Adaptation for horizontal transfer in a homing endonuclease

Koufopanou, VG, M. R.; Burt, A., Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19:239-246. 2002.

Selfish genes of no function other than self-propagation are susceptible to degeneration if they become fixed in a population. and regular transfer to new species may be the only means for their long-term persistence. To test this idea we surveyed 24 species of yeast for VDE, a ...
Keywords: adaptation, distribution, DNA, elements, Evolution, gene drive ecology, gene drive evolution, gene drive natural, gene-sequences, group-i introns, homing endonuclease, horizontal (lateral) transfer (transmission), identification, intein, phylogenetic analysis, plants, protein-splicing domain, rna, selfish gene, VDE, yeast, yeast saccharomyces-cerevisiae