Planned Research
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
We developed a novel system inducing a new insertion of retrotransposons in zebrafish in vivo. Using this system, we revealed that the transcription of the newly inserted retrotransposons has not been silenced though the transcription had been considered to be highly repressed so far. Moreover, we revealed that the activation of the newly inserted retrotransposons is maintained at least for several generations of the life cycle of zebrafish. These data provide a new insight in the field of retrotransposon study.
分子生物学
