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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster
SUBMITTER: Paola Perrat
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-3798 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Perrat Paola N PN DasGupta Shamik S DasGupta Shamik S Wang Jie J Theurkauf William W Weng Zhiping Z Rosbash Michael M Waddell Scott S
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20130401 6128
Recent studies in mammals have documented the neural expression and mobility of retrotransposons and have suggested that neural genomes are diverse mosaics. We found that transposition occurs among memory-relevant neurons in the Drosophila brain. Cell type-specific gene expression profiling revealed that transposon expression is more abundant in mushroom body (MB) αβ neurons than in neighboring MB neurons. The Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA) proteins Aubergine and Argonaute 3, known to suppress tra ...[more]