Har-P, a short P-element variant, weaponizes P-transposase to severely impair Drosophila development
Satyam P. Srivastav, Reazur Rahman, Qicheng Ma, Jasmine Pierre, Saptaparni Bandyopadhyay, Nelson C. Lau
The paper identifies a truncated P-element variant, Har-P, as the cause of severe gonadal dysgenesis in Drosophila when transmitted paternally, showing its susceptibility to piRNA repression.
eLife · Dec 12, 2019Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology