Emerita Caputo

TL;DR: A set of yeast strains based on Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288C in which commonly used selectable marker genes are deleted by design based on the yeast genome sequence has been constructed and analysed and will reduce plasmid integration events which can interfere with a wide variety of molecular genetic applications.

TL;DR: A genetic system to recover many new L1 insertions in somatic cells was developed that faithfully mimic many aspects of L1s that accumulated since the primate radiation, and short identical sequences were shared between the donor and the target site's 3' end, suggesting a mechanistic model that helps explain the structure of L 1 insertions.

TL;DR: Several lrs mutants, including those in the cdc17 and rfc1 genes, caused lengthened telomeres, consistent with the hypothesis that telomere length modulates rDNA silencing.

TL;DR: In this article, the nucleotide (nt) sequence of a Tf2 element, the only retrotransposon family known from the commonly used laboratory strains, 972 and 975, and their derivatives, has been isolated from the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

TL;DR: This work describes the identification of mutants in the DNA replication pathway that enhance this RO-specific DNA damage supersensitivity by promoting ectopic recombination between Ty1 elements and confirms the central role of DNA replication accuracy in the stabilization of repetitive DNA.