A bioinformatics pipeline for the assessment of the evolutionary relationship of some Drosophila species based on class II transposons mapping

Transposons are mobile DNA sequences, known for their ability to insert into other locations in the genome. Genome sequencing allowed the identification of the high content of transposons in various model organisms. Here, we present a bioinformatics pipeline developed to estimate the evolutionary relationship between Drosophila melanogaster and other Drosophilidae based on the comparative analysis of the presence and distribution of class II transposons. Our study reveals that the presence and distribution of transposons hobo, HB, Tc1, Tc1-2, hopper and Bari1 points to close evolutionary relationship among D. melanogaster, D. simulans, D. sechellia and D. yakuba, which is in accordance with other data available in literature.