RNAi protects the Caenorhabditis elegans germline against transposition

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 314-319

  Vastenhouw, Nadine L ^a   Plasterk, Ronald H A ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSPOSASE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GERM CELLS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, HELMINTH; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; NEMATODA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANSPOSONS; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 2942714830     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2004.04.011     Document Type: Review

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