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ArticleGenes & development2026

Retrotransposon activation during spermatogenesis achieves massive ecDNA biogenesis but rare integration.

Lauren Tracy, Yao Chen, Zz Zhao Zhang

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Article in Genes & development, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. piRNA loss unleashes episodic transposition bursts.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lauren Tracy *Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
Yao Chen *Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
Zz Zhao ZhangDepartment of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA z.z@duke.edu.

Funding

Regulation, function, and impact of developmental retrotransposon activationR01GM141018 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHANG, ZHAO · 2021 to 2024
$1.3M
Biogenesis and function of retrotransposon-derived circular DNAR01GM152423 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHANG, ZHAO · 2024 to 2025
$864k
Leica Stellaris Confocal for a Campus-wide Shared ResourceS10OD034340 · OD · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CAMERON, LISA A. · 2024 to 2024
$686k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM141018NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM152423NIH HHS S10 OD034340
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retrotransposon mobilization in germline cells enables the rewriting of genetic information to drive genome innovation, species evolution, and adaptation through the generation of de novo mutations. However, uncontrolled mobilization can cause DNA breaks and genome instability, often leading to sterility. How retrotransposon mobilization that can be retained for genome evolution persists despite negative outcomes of retrotransposon activity remains poorly understood. Here, we used

Indexed as

DNA, CircularDrosophila melanogasterRetroelementsSpermatogenesisAnimalsExtrachromosomal DNAMaleDNA, CircularExtrachromosomal DNARetroelementsecDNAretrotransposonspermatogenesis

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PMID41571463
PMCPMC12951756

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