transposable element silencing by heterochromatin formation
A transposable element silencing mechanism involving heterochromatin assembly. Heterochromatin is a chromatin conformation that is refractory to transcription.
GO:0010526
transposable element silencing
is_a
GO:0140719
constitutive heterochromatin formation
is_a
retrotransposon silencing by heterochromatin formation
narrow
SPCC306.04c