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SUBMITTER: Biessmann H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC557021 | biostudies-other | 1992 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Biessmann H H Champion L E LE O'Hair M M Ikenaga K K Kasravi B B Mason J M JM
The EMBO journal 19921201 12
HeT-A elements are a new family of transposable elements in Drosophila that are found exclusively in telomeric regions and in the pericentric heterochromatin. Transposition of these elements onto broken chromosome ends has been implicated in chromosome healing. To monitor the fate of HeT-A elements that had attached to broken ends of the X chromosome, we examined individual X chromosomes from a defined population over a period of 17 generations. The ends of the X chromosomes with new HeT-A addit ...[more]