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Genetics, Vol. 176, 2477-2487, August 2007, Copyright © 2007
doi:10.1534/genetics.107.071811

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Transposable Element Dynamics of the hAT Element Herves in the Human Malaria Vector Anopheles gambiae s.s.

Ramanand A. Subramanian*, Peter Arensburger{dagger}, Peter W. Atkinson{dagger} and David A. O'Brochta*,1

* Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20850 and {dagger} Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0314

1 Corresponding author: Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850.
E-mail: obrochta{at}umbi.umd.edu

Transposable elements are being considered as genetic drive agents for introducing phenotype-altering genes into populations of vectors of human disease. The dynamics of endogenous elements will assist in predicting the behavior of introduced elements. Transposable element display was used to estimate the site-occupancy frequency distribution of Herves in six populations of Anopheles gambiae s.s. The site-occupancy distribution data suggest that the element has been recently active within the sampled populations. All 218 individuals sampled contained at least one copy of Herves with a mean of 3.6 elements per diploid genome. No significant differences in copy number were observed among populations. Nucleotide polymorphism within the element was high ({pi} = 0.0079 in noncoding sequences and 0.0046 in coding sequences) relative to that observed in some of the more well-studied elements in Drosophila melanogaster. In total, 33 distinct forms of Herves were found on the basis of the sequence of the first 528 bp of the transposase open reading frame. Only two forms were found in all six study populations. Although Herves elements in An. gambiae are quite diverse, 85% of the individuals examined had evidence of complete forms of the element. Evidence was found for the lateral transfer of Herves from an unknown source into the An. gambiae lineage prior to the diversification of the An. gambiae species complex. The characteristics of Herves in An. gambiae are somewhat unlike those of P elements in D. melanogaster.




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