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Title: Molecular evolution of the cacophony IVS6 region in sandflies
Authors: Lins, Rachel Mazzei Moura de Andrade
Oliveira, Sandra Maria P.
Souza, Nataly Araújo de
Queiroz, Raul Guerra de
Justiniano, Sílvia Cássia Brandão
Ward, Richard Douglas
Kyriacou, Charalambos Panayiotis
Peixoto, Alexandre Afrânio
Keywords: Diptera
Drosophila Melanogaster
Hexapoda
Insecta
Melanogaster
Phlebotominae
Psychodidae
Cacophony Ivs6 Protein, Drosophila
Dna, Complementary
Drosophila Protein
Insect Proteins
Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Classification
Exon
Genetics
Intron
Evolution, Molecular
Molecular Genetics
Nucleotide Sequence
Phylogeny
Psychodidae
Sequence Homology
Amino Acid Sequence
Animal
Base Sequence
Dna, Complementary
Drosophila Proteins
Evolution, Molecular
Exons
Insect Proteins
Introns
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeny
Psychodidae
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
Issue Date: 2002
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: Insect Molecular Biology
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 11, Número 2, Pags. 117-122
Abstract: A number of insects produce acoustic signals during courtship. Genes involved in the control of the courtship song are particularly interesting from an evolutionary viewpoint because interspecific variation in this signal is potentially important as a reproductive isolation mechanism and, as a consequence, in the speciation process. The cacophony gene was identified by a mutation affecting the 'lovesong' in Drosophila melanogaster. Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) also produce acoustic stimuli during courtship and therefore cacophony can be used as an interesting molecular marker in evolutionary studies in these important disease vectors. In this paper we have studied the molecular evolution of the IVS6 region of cacophony in sandflies. We compared the level of divergence in the exon sequences encoding this conserved domain in Drosophila and Phlebotomines. We also analysed the high level of variation in an intron that is present in sandflies but that was lost in Drosophila during evolution. The available cacophony sequences were also used for a phylogenetic analysis of some species of the Neotropical genus Lutzomyia.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2002.00315.x
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