Evidence for a piwi-Dependent RNA Silencing of the gypsy Endogenous Retrovirus by the Drosophila melanogaster flamenco Gene

Genetics

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1313-1321

  Sarot, Emeline ^a   Payen Groschêne, Geneviève ^a   Bucheton, Alain ^a   Pélisson, Alain ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLAMENCO GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GYPSY VIRUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PIWI MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPRESSOR GENE; RETROVIRUS; RNA SILENCING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENES, INSECT; GENES, REGULATOR; LAC OPERON; LARVA; MUTATION; OVARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 1942453393     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.3.1313     Document Type: Article

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