Constitutive Heterochromatin in Eukaryotic Genomes: A Mine of Transposable Elements
Transposable elements (TEs) are abundant components of constitutive heterochromatin of the most diverse evolutionarily distant organisms. TEs enrichment in constitutive heterochromatin was originally described in the model organism <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>, but it is now considered...
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MDPI AG
2022-02-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/11/5/761 |