Martín Muñoz-López

TL;DR: The Mboumar-9 transposase is expressed and purified and it is demonstrated that it is able to catalyze the movement of a transposon from one plasmid to another in a genetic in vitro hop assay and the efficiency is comparable to that of the well-characterized marinertransposon Mos1.

TL;DR: The results seem to indicate that transposition events have participated in the satellite DNA mobilization and evolution of ants shows high sequence similarity and may be an active element.

TL;DR: The results show that this satellite DNA sequence is specific to the C. carnifex genome but has not been found in three other species of Chrysolina occupying similar or different host plants, indicating a common evolutionary origin of all monomers from the same 211-bp sequence.

TL;DR: The accumulated data suggest that evolution of satellite DNA in ants follows the concerted evolution pattern but that this process is slow in relation with other organisms, probably due to the eusociality and haplodiploidy of these insects.

TL;DR: This work was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia through project CGL2006-04331 ⁄ BOS and the Junta de Andalucia through the programs Ayudas a Grupos de Investigacion and Incentivos a proyectos de investigacion de excelencia.