The Piwi-piRNA pathway provides an adaptive defense in the transposon arms race

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5851, 2007, Pages 761-764

  Aravin, Alexei A ^a   Hannon, Gregory J ^a   Brennecke, Julius ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; PIWI PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARMS RACE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GENOME; RNA;

BASE PAIRING; BIOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 36749037521     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1146484     Document Type: Review

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