Transposons unbound

Margaret G. Kidwell () and Damon R. Lisch
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Margaret G. Kidwell: University of Arizona
Damon R. Lisch: University of Arizona

Nature, 1998, vol. 393, issue 6680, 22-23

Abstract: One of the mechanisms that eukaryotes possess to regulate the movement of transposable elements & DNA sequences that can hop from one chromosomal location to another & is DNA methylation. A new study shows the consequences of removing this methylation-induced protection. The authors describe a hybrid between two species of wallaby that shows genome-wide undermethylation. Looking at the chromosomes of this hybrid, they find vast numbers of an amplified transposable element that is not found in either of the parental species.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/29889

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