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by Jonathan B Weitzman

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Guarding the Giardia genome

Two active transposons in the Giardia genome are found in subtelomeric regions and may prevent telomere decay.

Email: Jonathan B Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011205-01

Published

5 December 2001

Some transposable elements can be beneficial and others may persist in the genomes of sexually reproducing eukaryotes even if they are deleterious. In the December 4 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Irina Arkhipova and Hilary Morrison report the characterization of retrotransposons in the Giardia lamblia genome (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2001, 98:14497-14502).

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