Sperm-Mediated Transgenerational Inheritance
Spermatozoa of virtually all species can spontaneously take up exogenous DNA or RNA molecules and internalize them into nuclei. In this article I review evidence for a key role of a reverse transcriptase (RT) activity, encoded by LINE-1 retrotransposons, in the fate of the internalized nucleic acid...
主要作者: | |
---|---|
格式: | Article |
語言: | English |
出版: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2017-12-01
|
叢編: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
主題: | |
在線閱讀: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02401/full |