| an intron loss of dfak gene in species of the drosophila melanogaster subgroup and phylogenetic analysis. | drosophila focal adhesion kinase (dfak) gene is a single-copy nuclear gene. previous study revealed that drosophila melanogaster and drosophila simulans had lost an intron precisely within the tyrosine kinase (tyk) domain of this gene. however, this did not happen in several other drosophila species, including drosophila elegans, drosophila ficusphila, drosophila biarmipes, drosophila jambulina, drosophila prostipennis, drosophila takahashii, and drosophila pseudoobscura. in the current study, h ... | 2009 | 18310070 |
| the expansion of body coloration involves coordinated evolution in cis and trans within the pigmentation regulatory network of drosophila prostipennis. | the generation of complex morphological features requires the precisely orchestrated expression of numerous genes during development. while several traits have been resolved to evolutionary changes within a single gene, the evolutionary path by which genes derive co-localized or mutually excluded expression patterns is currently a mystery. here we investigate how the drosophila pigmentation gene network was altered in drosophila prostipennis, a species in the drosophila melanogaster subgroup, th ... | 2014 | 24907418 |