Table 3. Characteristics of the 10 TEs associated with adaptation to the temperate environments.
| Flybase ID | Class | Family | Size | Comp. to canonical TEa | Chrb | Pop. diff.c | Location to closest gene (R5.19) | GO annotations | Other functional information | |
| Biological process | Molecular function | |||||||||
| FBti0019056 | TIR | pogo | 185 | internal deletion | X | AU2008 | 3rd intron of CG9413 | amino acid transport | amino acid transmembrane transporter | Immune response [83] |
| FBti0019164 | LINE-like | X-element | 180 | 5′ truncated | 2L | AU2008 | 2nd intron of CG9932 | proteolysis | metallopeptidase | Associated with starvation resistance and locomotor reactivity [84] |
| FBti0019372 | TIR | S-element | 1761 | full length | 3R | AU2008 | 1st intron of rdx | segment polarity determination/eye development/regulation of proteolysis | protein binding | Mitotic cell cycle defective [85] |
| FBti0019386 | LTR | invader4 | 346 | solo LTR | 3R | AU&NA | 1st intron of sra | regulation female receptivity/egg activation/olfactory learning | protein binding | Meiotic cell cycle defective [86]/Courtship defective [66] |
| FBti0019443 | LINE-like | Rt1b | 3074 | 5′ truncated | 3R | AU2007-08 | 3rd intron of CG34353 | none | none | Circadian regulated gene [67] |
| FBti0019627 | TIR | pogo | 185 | internal deletion | X | NA | 3′ UTR of Kmn1 | Chromosome segregation | none | Mitotic cell cycle defective [87] |
| FBti0019771 | TIR | 1360 | 1105 | internal deletion | 2L | NA | 23.2 kb 5′ of CG34170 | none | none | none |
| 26.8 kb 5′ of CG31804 | none | none | Specifically regulated by HP1 in males [88] | |||||||
| FBti0020046 | LINE-like | Doc | 2304 | 5′ truncated | 3L | NA | 268bp 3′ of Jon65Aiv | proteolysis | S-type endopeptidase | Odor-guided behaviour [69] Mating-regulated gene [89] Immune responsive gene [90] |
| 8.1 kb 5′ of Jon65Aiii | proteolysis | S-type endopeptidase | Odor-guided behaviour [69] | |||||||
| FBti0020119 | TIR | S-element | 1731 | full length | 3L | AU&NA | 1st intron of Ago2 | defense response to virus/RNA interference | protein binding | none |
| FBti0020125 | LINE-like | BS | 5123 | full length | 3L | NA | 411bp 5′ of CG42513 | none | adenylate cyclase | none |
| 1.5 kb 3′ of CG12436 | none | none | ||||||||
a Comparison to canonical TE.
b Chromosome location.
c Population differentiation: Australia (AU), North America (NA).