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Telomere elongation (Tel), a new mutation in Drosophila melanogaster that produces long telomeres.
Genetics - 1 Jan 2002
Siriaco Giorgia M, Cenci Giovanni, Haoudi Abdelali, Champion Larry E, Zhou Chun, Gatti Maurizio, Mason James M
Abstract excerpt
In most eukaryotes telomeres are extended by telomerase. Drosophila melanogaster, however, lacks telomerase, and telomere-specific non-LTR retrotransposons, HeT-A and TART, transpose specifically to chromosome ends. A Drosophila strain, Gaiano, that has long telomeres has been identified. We extracted the major Gaiano chromosomes into an Oregon-R genetic background and examined the resulting stocks after 60...
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