{"id":2474,"date":"2013-04-18T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T11:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2018\/12\/23\/1010-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2019-07-13T13:33:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T13:33:24","slug":"science-review-transposon-driven-neuronal-heterogeneity-in-drosophila-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/18\/science-review-transposon-driven-neuronal-heterogeneity-in-drosophila-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Review: Transposon driven neuronal heterogeneity in Drosophila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Concept<\/strong>: Transposon driven neuronal heterogeneity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: An original <em>Report<\/em>\u00a0in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/340\/6128\/91\">Science\u00a0(April 5, 2013)<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Background<\/strong>: This was already shown in yeast and mammals, now in Drosophila. Transposons account for 45% and 20% of the human and Dros genome.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Results<\/strong>: Identified and characterised range of transposon activity in the olfactory memory system of mushroom bodies (MBs), especially in the neuron subtype\u00a0\u03b1\u03b2. It continues even in adult neurons.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Implication<\/strong>:\u00a0Neuronal\u00a0mosaicism\u00a0via transposons in\u00a0structures\u00a0associated with memory is a conserved feature of mammals\/flies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concept: Transposon driven neuronal heterogeneity. Source: An original Report\u00a0in Science\u00a0(April 5, 2013). Background: This was already shown in yeast and mammals, now in Drosophila. Transposons account for 45% and 20% of the human and Dros genome. Results: Identified and characterised range of transposon activity in the olfactory memory system of mushroom bodies (MBs), especially in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,242,16,17],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-evernote-entries","category-science","category-science-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1717,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2010\/11\/24\/line-1-retrotransposition-in-neurons-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2474,"position":0},"title":"LINE-1 retrotransposition in neurons","author":"Pala","date":"November 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"LINE-1\u00a0retrotransposons are sections of\u00a0DNA\u00a0which are capable of copying themselves into another part of the\u00a0genome. 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[http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/338\/6110\/1019.summary] 2012_11: Biochar\u00a0is charred (heated without air) biomass, that has the potential to mitigate climate change and - important for its economic viability - benefit agriculture. 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