A Caenorhabditis elegans RNA-directed RNA polymerase in sperm development and endogenous RNA interference

Genetics

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1297-1314

  Gent, Jonathan I ^a   Schvarzstein, Mara ^a   Villeneuve, Anne M ^a   Gu, Sam Guoping ^a   Jantsch, Verena ^b   Fire, Andrew Z ^a   Baudrimont, Antoine ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERI 1 PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; LETHALITY; MALE; MICROTUBULE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MICROTUBULES; MUTATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; X CHROMOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 71549139424     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.109686     Document Type: Article

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