Transposon-mediated genic rearrangements underlie variation in small RNA pathways
Gaotian Zhang,
Marie-Anne Félix,
Erik C. Andersen
Abstract:Transposable elements (TEs) can alter host gene structure and expression, whereas host organisms develop mechanisms to repress TE activities. In the nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans
, a small interfering RNA pathway dependent on the helicase ERI-6/7 primarily silences retrotransposons and recent genes of likely viral origin. By studying gene expression variation among wild
C. elegans
strains, we found that structural variants and transposon remnants likely underli… Show more
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