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The vicinity of a broken chromosome end affects P element mobilization in Drosophila melanogaster.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Dec 2004
Melnikova L, Biessmann H, Georgiev P
Abstract excerpt
Broken chromosome ends are believed to be capped by a terminal protein complex, and can be maintained in Drosophila melanogaster for many generations. We investigated whether the vicinity of a chromosome end affected P element mobilization and the subsequent repair of the resulting DNA lesion. High levels of P element excision were observed when at least 5 kb of DNA was located between the P element and the end...
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