Telomeres in Drosophila are maintained by transposition of specialized telomeric
retroelements HeT-A, TAHRE, and TART instead of the short DNA repeats generated by …

Telomeres in Drosophila are maintained by transpositions of specialized telomeric
retroelements HeT-A and TART rather than by the telomerase activity adding short DNA …

The maintenance of chromosome ends in Drosophila is an exceptional phenomenon
because it relies on the transposition of specialized retrotransposons rather than on the …

Drosophila telomeres comprise DNA sequences that differ dramatically from those of other
eukaryotes. Telomere functions, however, are similar to those found in telomerase‐based …

Telomeres in Drosophila are maintained by the specialized telomeric retrotransposons HeT-
A, TART and TAHRE. Sense transcripts of telomeric retroelements were shown to be the …

In most eukaryotes, telomeres are composed of simple repetitive sequences renewable by
telomerase. By contrast, Drosophila telomeres comprise arrays of non-LTR retrotransposons …

Drosophila telomeres do not have typical telomerase repeats. Instead, two families of non-
LTR retrotransposons, HeT-A and TART, maintain telomere length by occasional …

Telomeres across the genus Drosophila are maintained, not by telomerase, but by two non-
LTR retrotransposons, HeT-A and TART, that transpose specifically to chromosome ends …

▪ Abstract Telomere molecular biology is far more complex than originally thought.
Understanding biological systems is aided by study of evolutionary variants, and Drosophila …

The conserved ATM checkpoint kinase and the Mre11 DNA repair complex play essential
and overlapping roles in maintaining genomic integrity. We conducted genetic and …