Maternal noncoding transcripts antagonize the targeting of DNA elimination by scanRNAs in Paramecium tetraurelia

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1501-1512

  Lepère, Gersende ^a,b,c   Bétermier, Mireille ^a,b   Meyer, Eric ^a,b   Duharcourt, Sandra ^a,b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Genome rearrangements; Maternal effects; Meiotic short RNAs; Noncoding transcripts; Paramecium

Indexed keywords

DNA; MACRONUCLEAR RNA; RNA DERIVATIVE; SCAN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GROWTH; INTERNAL ELIMINATED SEQUENCE; MEIOSIS; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE REARRANGEMENT; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

CILIOPHORA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA;

EID: 44849120634     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.473008     Document Type: Article

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