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Title: Caracterización de inversiones cromosómicas en Drosophila subobscura
Author: Delgado Pérez, Kenia M.
Tutor: Orengo, Dorcas  
Others: Merino, David  
Abstract: Chromosomal inversions are structural variations produced by the breakage of a chromosomal fragment and its reinsertion in an inverted orientation. Drosophila has been the most studied genus, with D. subobscura being particularly interesting for its abundant inversion polymorphism. Chromosomal inversions have been related to the adaptive character of the species. The aim of this study was the characterization of chromosome inversions by Illumina paired-end reads mapping to a reference genome. For this purpose, a bioinformatics protocol was created to obtain the breakpoints of the J1 inversion, of special interest due to its adaptive nature, and the breakpoints of the U6 inversion. The two break points of the U6 inversion were characterized and the results revealed that the inversion was caused by NHEJ and staggered break. The study of the flanking coding genes determined that the inversion did not affect any of them. However, it would be necessary to corroborate said breakpoints by PCR to confirm this fact. The breaking points of the J1 inversion could not be characterized molecularly. This fact shows the difficulty of obtaining breakpoints due to highly repetitive areas in the genome that hinder the NGS data assembly process. Despite not obtaining the expected results, a bioinformatics protocol was obtained that will allow future researchers to determine the breakpoints of inversions and will be a starting point for a large number of adaptation studies.
Keywords: chromosomal inversions
drosophila subobscura
breakpoints
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: Jun-2023
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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