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Stress-induced transposon reactivation: a mediator or an estimator of allostatic load?
1 Aug 2016
Abstract excerpt
Transposons are playing an important role in the evolution of eukaryotic genomes. These endogenous virus-like elements often amplify within their host genomes in a species specific manner. Today we have limited understanding when and how these amplification events happens. What we do know is that cells have evolved multiple line of defenses to keep these potentially invasive elements under control, often...
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