Nature 302, 119 - 124 (10 March 1983); doi:10.1038/302119a0

Retrovirus-like particles containing RNA homologous to the transposable element copia in Drosophila melanogaster

Tadayoshi Shiba^* & Kaoru Saigo^†

^*Laboratory of Cell Biology, Mitsubishi-Kasei Institute of Life Sciences, 11 Minamiooya, Machida-shi, Tokyo, Japan
^†Department of Biochemistry, Kyushu University, 60 School of Medicine, Fukuoko 812, Japan

The presence in cultured Drosophila melanogaster cells of retrovirus-like particles containing 5 kilobase RNA molecules homologous to the transposable element copia provides support for the suggested evolutionary relationship between retroviruses and eukaryotic movable genetic elements.

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