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Drosophila telomeres: an exception providing new insights.
Review in BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 93 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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93 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Ageing effects of social environments in 'non-social' insects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Convergence and conflict among telomere-specialized transposons across 60 million years of Drosophilid evolution.Genome research · 2026Article
- Beyond Mice and Men: Alternative Vertebrate and Invertebrate Models in Cancer Biology.Annual review of cancer biology · 2026Article
- Transposable elements contribute substantially to naturally occurring genetic lethality in Drosophila melanogaster.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the Dipteran Bactrocera dorsalis from a single individual.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Acytota and the evolution of complexity.European biophysics journal : EBJ · 2025Review
- Factors determining chromosomal localization of transposable elements in plants.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2025Review
- TeloSearchLR: an algorithm to detect novel telomere repeat motifs using long sequencing reads.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Article
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- Transcriptional coupling of telomeric retrotransposons with the cell cycle.Science advances · 2025Article
- Lysine-36 of Drosophila histone H3.3 supports adult longevity.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Shedding Light on the Interaction Between Rif1 and Telomeres in Ovarian Cancer.Aging and disease · 2024Review
- Guardians of the Genome: How the Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Proteins RPA and CST Facilitate Telomere Replication.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- Unwrap RAP1's Mystery at Kinetoplastid Telomeres.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- Genomic analysis of hyperparasitic viruses associated with entomopoxviruses.Virus evolution · 2024Article
- Lysine-36 ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Telomeric retrotransposons show propensity to form G-quadruplexes in various eukaryotic species.Mobile DNA · 2023Article
- Connections between sister and non-sister telomeres of segregating chromatids maintain euploidy.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Identification of theCells · 2022Article
- Profiles of telomeric repeats in Insecta reveal diverse forms of telomeric motifs in Hymenopterans.Life science alliance · 2022Article
33 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
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, even though the underlying mechanisms may differ. Drosophila telomeres use arrays of retrotransposons to maintain chromosome length, while nearly all other eukaryotes rely on telomerase-generated short repeats. Regardless of the DNA sequence, several end-binding proteins are evolutionarily conserved. Away from the end, the Drosophila telomeric and subtelomeric DNA sequences are complexed with unique combinations of proteins that also modulate chromatin structure elsewhere in the genome. Maintaining and regulating the transcriptional activity of the telomeric retrotransposons in Drosophila requires specific chromatin structures and, while telomeric silencing spreads from the terminal repeats in yeast, the source of telomeric silencing in Drosophila is the subterminal arrays. However, the subterminal arrays in both species may be involved in telomere-telomere associations and/or communication.
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