Six domesticated PiggyBac transposases together carry out programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium

The domestication of transposable elements has repeatedly occurred during evolution and domesticated transposases have often been implicated in programmed genome rearrangements, as remarkably illustrated in ciliates. In Paramecium, PiggyMac (Pgm), a domesticated PiggyBac transposase, carries out dev...

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Main Authors: Julien Bischerour, Simran Bhullar, Cyril Denby Wilkes, Vinciane Régnier, Nathalie Mathy, Emeline Dubois, Aditi Singh, Estienne Swart, Olivier Arnaiz, Linda Sperling, Mariusz Nowacki, Mireille Bétermier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-09-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/37927