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A locust type 1 ADP‐ribosylation factor (lARF1) * is 100% identical in amino acid sequence to Drosophila ARF1 despite obvious DNA sequence divergence
Author(s) -
Hannan F.,
Evans P. D.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
insect molecular biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.955
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2583
pISSN - 0962-1075
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2000.00219.x
Subject(s) - biology , locust , drosophila melanogaster , gene , complementary dna , genetics , dna , migratory locust , insect , peptide sequence , desert locust , nucleic acid sequence , botany , schistocerca
The cDNA of a type 1 ADP‐ribosylation factor (ARF) from the desert locust, Locusta migratoria was cloned, sequenced and compared to ARF1 genes of other species. The locust ARF1 protein is 100% identical with the ARF1 protein of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster even though the DNA sequences are only 79% identical. The significance of this finding in relation to the considerable evolutionary distance between hemimetabolous and holometabolous insects is discussed.