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Direct cell-to-cell transmission of retrotransposons

2025-03-15

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Transposable elements are abundant in host genomes but are generally considered to be confined to the cell in which they are expressed, with the notable exception of endogenous retroviruses. Here, we identify a group of LTR retrotransposons that infect the germline from somatic cells within the Drosophila ovary, despite lacking the fusogenic Envelope protein typically required for retroviral entry. Instead, these...

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Literature Corpus work: ce6713b8-46d2-5a71-bb45-96ee06d4a4d1
DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.14.642691

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