How Jumping Genes Hyjack Nurse Cells (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

How Jumping Genes Hyjack Nurse Cells

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Jumping genes, which mobilize around the genome, use nurse cells to manufacture invading products that preferentially integrate into the genome of developing egg cells, called oocytes.

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Zhao Zhang

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