Natural epigenetic protection against the I-factor, a drosophila LINE retrotransposon, by remnants of ancestral invasions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Dramard, Xavier ^a   Heidmann, Thierry ^a   Jensen, Silke ^a  

^a Institut Gustave Roussy   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN I FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA;

AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FEMALE STERILITY; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; HEAT TREATMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; EGG LAYING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA;

AGING; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MALE; OVARY; OVIPOSITION; RETROELEMENTS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 55849106286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000304     Document Type: Article

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