Low dose rate γ-irradiation protects Drosophila melanogaster chromosomes from double strand breaks and telomere fusions by modulating the expression of the esi-RNA biogenesis factor Loquacious.
Antonella Porrazzo, Francesca Cipressa, Alex De Gregorio, Cristiano De Pittà, Gabriele Sales, Laura Ciapponi, Patrizia Morciano, Giuseppe Esposito, Maria Antonella Tabocchini, Giovanni Cenci
The paper shows that low-dose rate γ-irradiation reduces chromosome breaks and telomere fusions in Drosophila by modulating Loquacious expression.
Communications Biology · Sep 3, 2022Peer-reviewedGenetics