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The retrotransposon R2 maintains Drosophila ribosomal DNA repeats
J. O. Nelson, A. Slicko, Y. M. Yamashita
The paper shows that the retrotransposon R2 maintains ribosomal DNA copy number in Drosophila male germline, preventing lineage extinction.
DOI 10.1101/2021.07.12.451825