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Sperm-Mediated Transgenerational Inheritance

Spermatozoa of virtually all species can spontaneously take up exogenous DNA or RNA molecules and internalize them into nuclei. In this article I review evidence for a key role of a reverse transcriptase (RT) activity, encoded by LINE-1 retrotransposons, in the fate of the internalized nucleic acid...

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Autor principal: Spadafora, Corrado
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255455
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02401