Genetic requirements for inheritance of RNAi in C. elegans

Science

Volumn 287, Issue 5462, 2000, Pages 2494-2497

  Grishok, Alla ^a   Tabara, Hiroaki ^a   Mello, Craig C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GERM LINE; INHERITANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, HELMINTH;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0034737747     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5462.2494     Document Type: Article

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31. We thank T. H. Shin, M. Soto, A. Fire, and members of our laboratory for many discussions; Y. Bei and T. Shin for help in scoring RNAi mutant embryos; G. Seydoux for the pes-10::gfp strain; and the anonymous reviewer for helpful suggestions. Some strains were obtained from the C. elegans Genetic Stock Center, which is funded by a grant from the NIH National Center for Research Support. Supported in part by a Pew scholarship to C.C.M. and by NIH grant GM58800.