Transposon silencing in the Caenorhabditis elegans germ line by natural RNAi

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6964, 2003, Pages 310-314

  Sijen, Titia ^a   Plasterk, Ronald H A ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSCRIPTION; MUTANTS;

RNA;

HELMINTH RNA;

MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GERM LINE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, HELMINTH; GERM CELLS; NUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAYS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA EDITING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; TRANSPOSONS; VERMES;

EID: 0345306117     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02107     Document Type: Article

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