Spontaneous meiotic recombination events do not normally occur in the male germ line of Drosophila melanogaster. However, such events are induced in males when a P transposable element or a source of ...

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The P transposable element recently invaded wild Drosophila melanogaster strains worldwide. A single introduced copy can multiply and spread throughout the fly genome in just a few generations, even ...

Odorant receptor genes form the largest gene familiy in the genome of many animals: for example, the mouse genome contains approximately 1200 of these genes. These genes are distributed across 40 gene ...