TAHRE, a Novel Telomeric Retrotransposon from Drosophila melanogaster, Reveals the Origin of Drosophila Telomeres

P. Abad, José; de Pablos, Beatriz; Osoegawa, Kazutoyo; J. de Jong, Pieter; Martín-Gallardo, Antonia; Villasanté, Alfredo

doi:10.1093/molbev/msh180

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TAHRE, a Novel Telomeric Retrotransposon from Drosophila melanogaster, Reveals the Origin of Drosophila Telomeres

Published in Molecular Biology and Evolution • Jun 8, 2004

Authors:

José P. Abad

Beatriz de Pablos

Kazutoyo Osoegawa

Abstract

Drosophila telomeres do not have typical telomerase repeats. Instead, two families of non-LTR retrotransposons, HeT-A and TART, maintain telomere length by occasional transposition to the chromosome ends. Despite the work on Drosophila telomeres, its evolutionary origin remains controversial. Herein...

Subject

Telomere

Retrotransposon

Biology

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