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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Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2018-09-01
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Series: | eLife |
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/37927 |