Figure 1 of Victoria Lundblad's News and Views article “Telomeres: A tale of ends” (Nature 403, 149; 2000) was printed incorrectly in some editions. The correct version is shown below.

Figure 1: Proposed set of common events at DNA double-strand breaks and telomeres.
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Evidence is growing for the idea that these two pathways are partially linked. Ahmed and Hodgkin1 show that the mortal germline-2 (mrt-2) gene, which is required for telomere replication, is also involved in monitoring DNA for double-strand breaks. The idea is that processing to resect one strand of a telomere or double-strand break could be resolved by activities that are specific for telomere maintenance (such as telomerase) or DNA repair (such as a DNA ligase).

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