DNA damage response and repair in perspective: Aedes aegypti, Drosophila melanogaster and Homo sapiens

Abstract Background The maintenance of genomic integrity is the responsibility of a complex network, denominated the DNA damage response (DDR), which controls the lesion detection and DNA repair. The main repair pathways are base excision repair (BER), nucleotide excision repair (NER), mismatch repa...

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Main Authors: Maria Beatriz S. Mota, Marcelo Alex Carvalho, Alvaro N. A. Monteiro, Rafael D. Mesquita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
Subjects:
DDR
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-019-3792-1