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This article is part of the supplement: Frontiers of Retrovirology: Complex retroviruses, retroelements and their hosts

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Silencing of retroviruses by small RNAs in Drosophila

Christine Brun, Séverine Chambeyron, Alain Pélisson, Vincent Serrano and Alain Bucheton*

  • * Corresponding author: Alain Bucheton

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Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS, 34396 Montpellier, France

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Retrovirology 2009, 6(Suppl 2):I4 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-6-S2-I4

Published: 24 September 2009

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Retroviruses propagate also in invertebrates. The Drosophila genome contains many proviruses belonging to several families of endogenous retroviruses. These proviruses are usually repressed, but the mechanisms involved in their repression have been a mystery for a long time.