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Identification of the Telomere elongation Mutation in Drosophila.
Cells - 3 Nov 2022
Reddy Hemakumar M, Randall Thomas A, Cipressa Francesca, Porrazzo Antonella, Cenci Giovanni, Frydrychova Radmila Capkova, Mason James M
Abstract excerpt
Telomeres in Drosophila melanogaster, which have inspired a large part of Sergio Pimpinelli work, are similar to those of other eukaryotes in terms of their function. Yet, their length maintenance relies on the transposition of the specialized retrotransposons Het-A, TART, and TAHRE, rather than on the activity of the enzyme telomerase as it occurs in most other eukaryotic organisms. The length of the telomeres...
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