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SUBMITTER: Villasante A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2099598 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Villasante Alfredo A Abad José P JP Planelló Rosario R Méndez-Lago María M Celniker Susan E SE de Pablos Beatriz B
Genome research 20071107 12
Drosophila telomeres do not have arrays of simple telomerase-generated G-rich repeats. Instead, Drosophila maintains its telomeres by occasional transposition of specific non-long terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons to chromosome ends. The genus Drosophila provides a superb model system for comparative telomere analysis. Here we present an evolutionary study of Drosophila telomeric elements to ascertain the significance of telomeric retrotransposons (TRs) in the maintenance of Drosophila ...[more]