Characterization of Drosophila telomeric retroelement TAHRE: transcription, transpositions, and RNAi-based regulation of expression

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2535-2545

  Shpiz, Sergey ^a   Kwon, Dmitry ^a,b   Uneva, Anastasiya ^c   Kim, Maria ^c   Klenov, Mikhail ^a   Rozovsky, Yakov ^a   Georgiev, Pavel ^c   Savitsky, Mikhail ^c,d   Kalmykova, Alla ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Retrotransposon; RNAi; TAHRE; Telomere

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HET A GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIWI GENE; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; RETROPOSON; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPN E GENE; TAHRE GENE; TART GENE; TELOMERE; UPREGULATION; VASA GENE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER SUBGROUP;

EID: 35848929051     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm205     Document Type: Article

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