Drosophila telomeres: A variation on the telomerase theme

In Drosophila, the role of telomerase is carried out by three specialized retrotransposable elements, HeT-A, TART, and TAHRE. Telomeres contain long tandem head-to-tail arrays of these elements. Within each array, the three elements occur in random, but polarized, order. Some are truncated at the...

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Main Authors: Pardue, Mary-Lou, DeBaryshe, P. G.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Landes Bioscience 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76259
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4448-0785