The evolutionary dynamics of satellite DNA is most often studied in canonical mating systems, where bisexuality and panmixis are the rule. In eusocial termites, the limited number of reproducers starting a new colony and the maintenance of the colony through few neotenics act as bottle-necks both in space and time. No data on repetitive DNA are available for Isoptera and for their peculiar reproductive strategy. Here we present the first satellite DNA family isolated in European Reticulitermes. RET76 is a G+C rich satellite embodying two sub-families with a 76 bp monomer. RET76 sequences are highly variable (sequence homology is lower than 80% within sub-families and lower than 68% in the entire family) and this variability is equally distributed among the eight analysed taxa, thus depicting a pattern of non-concerted evolution. The absence of variant fixation – together with the strict monomer length conservation – may be explained at the molecular level as due to functional constraints acting on these sequences, and/or at the organismic level by considering the involvement of eusociality in preventing or greatly reducing variant fixation, somehow mimicking an unisexual strategy.

LUCHETTI A., MARINI M., MANTOVANI B. (2006). Non-concerted evolution of the RET76 satellite DNA family in Reticulitermes taxa (Insecta, Isoptera). GENETICA, 128(1-3), 123-132 [10.1007/s10709-005-5540-z].

Non-concerted evolution of the RET76 satellite DNA family in Reticulitermes taxa (Insecta, Isoptera).

LUCHETTI, ANDREA;MARINI, MARIO;MANTOVANI, BARBARA
2006

Abstract

The evolutionary dynamics of satellite DNA is most often studied in canonical mating systems, where bisexuality and panmixis are the rule. In eusocial termites, the limited number of reproducers starting a new colony and the maintenance of the colony through few neotenics act as bottle-necks both in space and time. No data on repetitive DNA are available for Isoptera and for their peculiar reproductive strategy. Here we present the first satellite DNA family isolated in European Reticulitermes. RET76 is a G+C rich satellite embodying two sub-families with a 76 bp monomer. RET76 sequences are highly variable (sequence homology is lower than 80% within sub-families and lower than 68% in the entire family) and this variability is equally distributed among the eight analysed taxa, thus depicting a pattern of non-concerted evolution. The absence of variant fixation – together with the strict monomer length conservation – may be explained at the molecular level as due to functional constraints acting on these sequences, and/or at the organismic level by considering the involvement of eusociality in preventing or greatly reducing variant fixation, somehow mimicking an unisexual strategy.
2006
LUCHETTI A., MARINI M., MANTOVANI B. (2006). Non-concerted evolution of the RET76 satellite DNA family in Reticulitermes taxa (Insecta, Isoptera). GENETICA, 128(1-3), 123-132 [10.1007/s10709-005-5540-z].
LUCHETTI A.; MARINI M.; MANTOVANI B.
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