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Experimental evolution reveals hyperparasitic interactions among transposable elements
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Transposable elements (TEs) are repeated DNA sequences that can constitute a substantial part of genomes. Studying TEs' activity, interactions, and accumulation dynamics is thus of major interest to understand genome evolution. Here, we describe the transposition dynamics of cut-and-paste mariner elements during experimental (short-and longer-term) evolution in Drosophila melanogaster. Flies with autonomous and nonautonomous mariner copies were introduced in populations containing no active mariner, and TE accumulation was tracked by quantitative PCR for up to 100 generations. Our results demonstrate that (i) active mariner elements are highly invasive and characterized by an elevated transposition rate, confirming their capacity to spread in populations, as predicted by the selfish-DNA mechanism; (ii) nonautonomous copies act as parasites of autonomous mariner elements by hijacking the transposition machinery produced by active mariner, which can be considered as a case of hyperparasitism; (iii) this behavior resulted in a failure of active copies to amplify which systematically drove the whole family to extinction in less than 100 generations. This study nicely illustrates how the presence of transposition-competitive variants can deeply impair TE dynamics and gives clues to the extraordinary diversity of TE evolutionary histories observed in genomes.
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transposable elements
hyperparasitism
Drosophila
experimental evolution
invasion dynamics
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Autoregulation of mariner transposase activity by overproduction and dominant-negative complementation通过过量生产和显性负互补自动调节mariner转座酶活性
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