Regulation of heterochromatin assembly on unpaired chromosomes during Caenorhabditis elegansmeiosis by components of a small RNA-mediated pathway

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  She, Xingyu ^a   Xu, Xia ^a   Fedotov, Alexander ^b   Kelly, William G ^b   Maine, Eleanor M ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DRH 3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; DRH-3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; EGO 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; EGO-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; EKL PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HISTONE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HERMAPHRODITISM; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; METHYLATION;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GERM CELLS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; MALE; MEIOSIS; METHYLATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 70149093944     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000624     Document Type: Article

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