Supplemental Table S1: Accession number of the nucleotide sequence data reported available in the GenBank databases.

DEFINITION / GenBank accession numbers
Drosophila melanogaster Zola strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 1, partial cds. / GU046517
Drosophila melanogaster Zola strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 2, partial cds. / GU046518
Drosophila melanogaster Zola strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 3, partial cds. / GU046519
Drosophila melanogaster Oregon strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 1, partial cds. / GU046520
Drosophila melanogaster Oregon strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 2, partial cds. / GU046521
Drosophila melanogaster Oregon strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 3, partial cds. / GU046522
Drosophila melanogaster Oregon strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 4, partial cds. / GU046523
Zaprionus indianus hosimary transposase sequence clone 1, partial cds. / GU046524
Zaprionus indianus hosimary transposase sequence clone 2, partial cds. / GU046525
Zaprionus indianus hosimary transposase sequence clone 3, partial cds. / GU046526
Drosophila sechellia hosimary transposase sequence clone 1, partial cds. / GU046527
Drosophila sechellia hosimary transposase sequence clone 2, partial cds. / GU046530
Drosophila sechellia hosimary transposase sequence clone 3, partial cds. / GU046528
Drosophila sechellia hosimary transposase sequence clone 4, partial cds. / GU046529
Drosophila simulans white strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 1, partial cds. / GU046531
Drosophila simulans white strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 2, partial cds. / GU046532
Drosophila simulans white strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 3, partial cds. / GU046533
Drosophila simulans white strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 4, partial cds. / GU046534
Drosophila mauritiana hosimary transposase sequence clone 3, partial cds. / GU046542
Drosophila mauritiana hosimary transposase sequence clone 3, partial cds. / GU046541
Drosophila mauritiana hosimary transposase sequence clone 2, partial cds. / GU046540
Drosophila mauritiana hosimary transposase sequence clone 1, partial cds. / GU046539
Drosophila simulans yellow strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 1, partial cds. / GU046535
Drosophila simulans yellow strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 2, partial cds. / GU046536
Drosophila simulans yellow strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 3, partial cds. / GU046537
Drosophila simulans yellow strain hosimary transposase sequence clone 4, partial cds. / GU046538

Supplemental Table S2: List of Drosophilidae species used in this study.

Genus / Subgenus / Section / Group / Species / Strain
Drosophila / Drosophila / quinaria/tripunctata / guarani / D. ornatifrons
D. subbadia
guaramunu / D. griseolineata
D. maculifrons
tripunctata / D. tripunctata
D. mediodiffusa
cardini / D. cardini
D. cardinoides
D. neocardini
D. polymorpha
D. procardinoides
D. arawakana
pallidipennis / D. pallidipennis
calloptera / D. ornatipennis
immigrans / D. immigrans
funebris / D. funebris
virilis- repleta / mesophragmatica / D. gasici
D. gaucha
repleta / D. hydei
D. mercatorum
anulimana / D. annulimana
canalinea / D. canalinea
flavopilosa / D. cestri
D. incompta
virilis / D. virilis
robusta / D. robusta
Sophophora / melanogaster / D.melanogaster / Oregon
Zola
D. simulans / white
yellow
Águas de Lindóia
D. sechellia
D. mauritiana
D. teissieri
D. santomea
D. erecta
D. yakuba
D. kikkawai
D. ananassae
D. malerkotliana
D. orena
obscura / D. pseudoobscura
saltans / D. sturtevanti
D. saltans
willistoni / D.sucinea
D. nebulosa
D. paulistorum
D. willistoni
Dorsilopha / D. busckii
Zaprionus / Z. indianus
Z. tuberculatus
Z. sepsoides
Z. multistriatus
Scaptodrosophila / S. latifasciaeformis
S. lebanonensis

Supplemental Table S3: Accession numbers of the nuclear genes sequences

amd / amyrel / per / sod
D. melanogaster / NM165278.1 / NM057914.3 / AF033029.1 / NM057387.3
D. simulans / XM002079852.1 / XM002081767 / AF251249.1 / XM00208442.1
D. sechellia / XM002039039.1 / XM002034125.1 / AF251250.1 / XM002030033.1
D. mauritiana / U96157 / AF251240.1 / AF127158.1
Z. indianus / AY699263.1 / EF458322
Z. tuberculatus / AF021823

Supplemental Fig. S1: Schematic representation of the transposase aminoacid fragment hosimary cluster elements, based on Hosec1.2. Below the putative transposase (701 amino acid), the three domains identified by CDD are: Zf-BED, DUF659 and the hAT dimerization domain (hATC). The rectangle above the transposase represents the analyzed 245 amino acid fragment used in this study (approximate size and position). The triangle indicatesthe 66-bp intron of Hosec1.2, identified by NetGene2 Server (Brunak et al. 1991; Hebsgaard et al. 1996). These softwares as well as BLASTn and BLASTx are available at NCBI (

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Supplemental Fig. S2: Representation of the evolutionary relationships of host species analyzed in this study based on Robe et al (2005).