Transmission dynamics of heritable silencing induced by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1275-1288

  Alcazar, Rosa M ^a,b   Lin, Rueyling ^c   Fire, Andrew Z ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; OMA 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; OMA-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMETE; GENE; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GERM CELL; INHERITANCE; MALE; MICROINJECTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OMA 1 GENE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SILENCER ELEMENT; SPERM; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOCYTE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; MALE; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPERMATOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 59449100704     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.089433     Document Type: Article

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