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Characterization of Drosophila telomeric retroelement TAHRE: transcription, transpositions, and RNAi-based regulation of expression.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Nov 2007
Shpiz Sergey, Kwon Dmitry, Uneva Anastasiya, Kim Maria, Klenov Mikhail, Rozovsky Yakov, Georgiev Pavel, Savitsky Mikhail, Kalmykova Alla
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Telomeres in Drosophila are maintained by transpositions of specialized telomeric retroelements HeT-A and TART rather than by the telomerase activity adding short DNA repeats to chromosome ends in other eukaryotes. A novel element TAHRE was previously found in the telomeric regions of the genome of Drosophila melanogaster stock sequenced by the Genome Project. Comparative genomic analysis confirmed by Southern...
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