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vitripennis. This analysis was not performed in N. giraulti and N. longicornis because the 1-fold sequencing coverage would not provide adequate representation of variants present at low frequency. Only three nucleotide positions within the N. vitripennis transcription unit exhibited variation present in at least 3% of the units. These variants were 1�C2?bp indels located in the ITS1 and ITS2 at frequencies of 4, 6 and 8% of the units. In comparison, our previous analysis of Drosophila species revealed from three to 18 variable sites per species (Stage & Eickbush, 2007). This low level of sequence variation in N. vitripennis suggests that the efficiency of the concerted evolution process, as well as the selective pressures on the rDNA units, are at least as great as those of Drosophila. The rDNA spacer region (IGS) of Nasonia adhered to the general pattern found in animals of being a repetitive, tandem structure (Fig.?1B) (Collins & http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Adriamycin.html http://www.selleckchem.com/products/obeticholic-acid.html Cunningham, 2000; Grozdanov et?al., 2003; Vera et?al., 2003). In N. vitripennis, starting from the 3�� end of the 28S gene, there is a 336?bp non-repetitive sequence followed by a series of 47?bp repeats, a series of 84?bp repeats, a 265?bp non-repetitive sequence, and finally a series of 21?bp repeats. Each 84?bp sequence was composed of four 21?bp sequences that showed sequence similarity to the 21?bp repeats present at the 3�� end of the IGS. The origin of most of the 265?bp sequence is unknown, but does include a 35?bp sequence identical to the R1 insertion site in the 28S genes. As will be discussed below, many copies of R1 were found inserted in this sequence. The structure of IGSs in N. giraulti and N. longicornis are similar to that in N. vitripennis, except for minor changes in repeat lengths and in N. giraulti only an estimated four IGS copies contain the non-repetitive sequence (Figs?S4�CS6). All previously identified R2 elements were found in http://www.selleck.cn/products/LY294002.html the identical position of the 28S gene (Jakubczak et?al., 1991; Kojima & Fujiwara, 2005). Five R2 lineages with sequences diverged by greater than 50% were found at this site in the three Nasonia species (labelled R2A-R2E, Figs?S7�CS11). The 3�� junctions of all R2 elements were precise, while their 5�� junctions showed variation typical of R2 elements from Drosophila (Stage & Eickbush, 2009). In those families with enough copies to allow detailed study, the most common site of top strand cleavage was directly opposite the site of bottom strand cleavage (data not shown). Surprisingly, all R2 insertions in N. vitripennis and N. giraulti and about half of the insertions in N. longicornis were detected in rDNA units that also contained an R1 insertion (126 sequencing reads in N. vitripennis, 14 reads in N. giraulti, and 6 out of 10 reads in N. longicornis). Each R2 family present in the rDNA was found at levels ranging from