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Originally published in Science Express on 4 November 2004
Science 7 January 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5706, pp. 108 - 110
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101675
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Y Chromosome of D. pseudoobscura Is Not Homologous to the Ancestral Drosophila Y

Antonio Bernardo Carvalho1* and Andrew G. Clark2

We report a genome-wide search of Y-linked genes in Drosophila pseudoobscura. All six identifiable orthologs of the D. melanogaster Y-linked genes have autosomal inheritance in D. pseudoobscura. Four orthologs were investigated in detail and proved to be Y-linked in D. guanche and D. bifasciata, which shows that less than 18 million years ago the ancestral Drosophila Y chromosome was translocated to an autosome in the D. pseudoobscura lineage. We found 15 genes and pseudogenes in the current Y of D. pseudoobscura, and none are shared with the D. melanogaster Y. Hence, the Y chromosome in the D. pseudoobscura lineage appears to have arisen de novo and is not homologous to the D. melanogaster Y.

1 Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68011, CEP 21944-970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bernardo{at}biologia.ufrj.br

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