Organization and evolution of Drosophila terminin: similarities and differences between Drosophila and human telomeres

Drosophila lacks telomerase and fly telomeres are elongated by occasional transposition of three specialized retroelements. Drosophila telomeres do not terminate with GC-rich repeats and are assembled independently of the sequence of chromosome ends. Recent work has shown that Drosophila telomeres a...

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Main Authors: Grazia Daniela Raffa, Giovanni eCenci, Laura eCiapponi, Maurizio eGatti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2013.00112/full