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A Novel Terminal-Repeat Retrotransposon in Miniature (TRIM) Is Massively Expressed inEchinococcus multilocularisStem Cells
1 Jul 2015
Abstract excerpt
Taeniid cestodes (including the human parasites Echinococcus spp. and Taenia solium) have very few mobile genetic elements (MGEs) in their genome, despite lacking a canonical PIWI pathway. The MGEs of these parasites are virtually unexplored, and nothing is known about their expression and silencing. In this work, we report the discovery of a novel family of small nonautonomous long terminal repeat...
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