Transposition as a Mechanism for Maintaining Telomere Length in Drosophila

A mutant with a defect in telomere elongation leads to senescence in yeast

1989 • 905 citations

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF TELOMERES

1989 • 604 citations

DNA sequences of telomeres maintained in yeast

1984 • 552 citations

TELOMERASES

1992 • 531 citations

Analysis of subtelomeric heterochromatin in the Drosophila minichromosome Dp1187 by single P element insertional mutagenesis.

1992 • 403 citations

Addition of telomere-associated HeT DNA sequences “heals” broken chromosome ends in Drosophila

1990 • 245 citations

Developmentally programmed healing of chromosomes by telomerase in tetrahymena

1991 • 204 citations

HeT-A, a transposable element specifically involved in "healing" broken chromosome ends in Drosophila melanogaster.

1992 • 180 citations

Telomere telomere recombination provides an express pathway for telomere acquisition

1990 • 146 citations

Frequent transpositions of Drosophila melanogaster HeT-A transposable elements to receding chromosome ends.

1992 • 144 citations

Chromosome ends in Drosophila without telomeric DNA sequences.

1990 • 139 citations

Progressive loss of DNA sequences from terminal chromosome deficiencies in Drosophila melanogaster.

1988 • 116 citations

mu-2: mutator gene in Drosophila that potentiates the induction of terminal deficiencies.

1984 • 88 citations

Studies of He-T DNA sequences in the pericentric regions of Drosophila chromosomes

1989 • 62 citations

How does the end begin?

1990 • 57 citations

The genomic organization of HeT-A retroposons inDrosophila melanogaster

1993 • 30 citations

Playing with blocks: some pitfalls of forcing multiple alignments.

1991 • 23 citations