The genetics of RNA silencing

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2002, Pages 489-519

  Tijsterman, Marcel ^a   Ketting, René F ^a   Plasterk, Ronald H A ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cosuppression; Post Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS); RNA silencing; RNAi; SiRNAs

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ANIMAL GENETICS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL PROTECTION; CLEANING; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; GENE SILENCING; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; PROTOZOA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036953376     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.36.043002.091619     Document Type: Review

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