Change and HOAP for the best

Elife. 2020 Dec 22:9:e64945. doi: 10.7554/eLife.64945.

Abstract

HOAP is a telomere-binding protein that has a conserved role in Drosophila, but it also needs to evolve quickly to restrict telomeric retrotransposons.

Keywords: D. melanogaster; conflict; domestication; essential gene; evolutionary biology; positive selection; retrotransposon; telomere.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone / metabolism
  • Drosophila / genetics
  • Drosophila / metabolism
  • Drosophila Proteins* / genetics
  • Drosophila Proteins* / metabolism
  • Retroelements
  • Telomere* / genetics
  • Telomere* / metabolism

Substances

  • Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone
  • Drosophila Proteins
  • Retroelements