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Stuttering against marginotomy

Stuttering by telomerase contributes to the natural heterogeneity of fission yeast telomeric repeat sequences.

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Figure 1: Model for the function of Schizosaccharomyces pombe telomerase2,3.

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Ares, M., Chakrabarti, K. Stuttering against marginotomy. Nat Struct Mol Biol 15, 18–19 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb0108-18

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