Artificially stimulating retrotransposon activity increases mortality and accelerates a subset of aging phenotypes in Drosophila
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DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.23.493120
Abstract: Transposable elements (TE) are mobile sequences of DNA that can become transcriptionally active as an animal ages. Whether TE activity is simply a byproduct of heterochromatin breakdown or can contribute towards the aging process is… read more here.
Keywords: aging phenotypes; artificially stimulating; mortality; activity ... See more keywords