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Background   Drosophila subobscura  exhibits a rich inversion polymorphism, with some adaptive inversions showing repeatable spatiotemporal patterns in frequencies related to temperature. Previous studies reported increased basal HSP70 protein levels in homokaryotypic strains for a warm-climate arrangement compared to a cold-climate one. These findings do not match the similar  hsp70  genomic organization between arrangements, where gene expression levels are expected to be similar. In order to test this hypothesis and understand the molecular basis for  hsp70  expression, we compared basal  hsp70  mRNA levels in males and females, and analysed the 5′ and 3′ regulatory regions of  hsp70  genes in warm- and cold-climate isochromosomal O  3 + 4  + 7  and O ST  lines of  D. subobscura .    Results  We observed comparable mRNA levels between the two arrangements and a sex-biased  hsp70  gene expression. The number of heat-shock elements (HSEs) and GAGA sites on the promoters were identical amongst the O ST  and O  3 + 4  + 7  lines analysed. This is also true for 3′ AU-rich elements where most A and B copies of  hsp70  have, respectively, two and one element in both arrangements. Beyond the regulatory elements, the only notable difference between both arrangements is the presence in 3′ UTR of a 14 bp additional fragment after the stop codon in the  hsp70 A copy in five O  3 + 4  + 7  lines, which was not found in any of the six O ST  lines.    Conclusions  The equivalent  hsp70  mRNA amounts in O ST  and O  3 + 4  + 7  arrangements provide the first evidence of a parallelism between gene expression and genetic organization in  D. subobscura  lines having these arrangements. This is reinforced by the lack of important differential features in the number and structure of regulatory elements between both arrangements, despite the genetic differentiation observed when the complete 5′ and 3′ regulatory regions were considered. Therefore, the basal levels of  hsp70  mRNA cannot account, in principle, for the adaptive variation of the two arrangements studied. Consequently, further studies are necessary to understand the intricate molecular mechanisms of  hsp70  gene regulation in  D. subobscura .

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Basal hsp70 expression levels do not explain adaptive variation of the warm- and cold-climate O3 + 4 + 7 and OST gene arrangements of Drosophila subobscura