Abstract
The Drosophila willistoni feature with NCBI Gene ID 6651170 was established to be orthologous to Drosophila melanogaster gene Gar1 . The Gar1 protein contains the conserved domain H/ACA_rnp_Gar1/Naf1 (InterPro accession IPR007504) and the N-terminus and C-terminus of the protein are glycine-rich. There are major changes in the gene structure of the ortholog, Gar1-PA, between D. melanogaster and D. willistoni , which have three and four coding exons respectively. Notably, none of the intron positions are conserved between the two species.