Identification and analysis of mutator strains in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans show that natural loss of RNA interference triggers massive accumulation of Cnl1 retroelements at subtelomeric regions.
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Huang, M.Y., Madhani, H.D. Telomere transposon takeover in Cryptococcus. Nat Microbiol 7, 1108–1109 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01189-7
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