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Genetic effects of injection of Rous sarcoma virus DNA into polar plasm of early Drosophila melanogaster embryos.
Nature - 1 Jan 2000
Gazaryan K G, Nabirochkin S D, Tatosyan A G, Shakhbazyan A K, Shibanova E N
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Retroviral proviruses and the transposable elements of eukaryotic genomes are structurally similar. The biological significance of eukaryotic transposable elements has not been examined extensively but it is known that, like prokaryotic transposons, these elements can induce mutations in adjacent genes and cause their transposition. It is of interest to determine whether retroviral proviruses have the same...
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