Cafe5_genegroup

The blind and wingless bee louse fly (Braula coeca) is an aberrant member of the family Drosophilidae that lives as a parasitic inquiline in the hive of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera). The analysis of its genome identifies a case of horizontal transposon transfer and a striking parallel evolution in a set of ecologically-relevant gene families.盲眼无翅蜂虱蝇（Braula coeca）是果蝇科（Drosophilidae）的异常类群，以寄生性客居生物的身份栖息于西方蜜蜂（Apis mellifera）的蜂巢中。对其基因组的分析揭示了一起水平转座子转移事件，以及一组与生态相关的基因家族中显著的平行演化现象。