Origin and Evolution of Telomeres

Telomerase: evolution, structure, and function / Marie-Eve Brault, Yasmin D'Souza, and Chantal Autexier -- Drosophila telomeres: a variation on the telomerase theme / Mary-Lou Pardue and P. Gregory DeBaryshe -- Alternative lengthening of telomeres in mammalian cells / Anthony J. Cesare and Roger R. Reddel -- T-loops, T-circles, and slippery forks / Sarah A. Compton ... [et al.] -- Molecular diversity of telomeric sequences / Marita Cohn --, Evolution of telomere binding proteins / Martin P. Horvath -- Telomeres: guardians of genomic integrity or double agents of evolution? / Michael J. McEachern -- Evolution, composition, and interrelated functions of telomeres and subtelomeres: lessons from plants / Jiri Fajkus ... [et al.] -- Telomere position effect and the evolution of the genome / Frederique Magdinier, Alexandre Ottaviani, and Eric Gilson --, Cancer as a microevolutionary process affecting telomere structure and dynamics: the contribution of telomeres to cancer / J. Arturo Londono-Vallejo -- Prokaryotic telomeres: replication mechanisms and evolution / Sherwood R. Casjens and Wai Mun Huang -- Mitochondrial telomeres: an evolutionary paradigm for the emergence of telomeric structures and their replication strategies / Jozef Nosek and Lubomir Tomaska