Probing the initiation and effector phases of the somatic piRNA pathway in Drosophila

Genes and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2499-2504

  Haase, Astrid D ^a   Fenoglio, Silvia ^a   Muerdter, Felix ^a   Guzzardo, Paloma M ^a   Czech, Benjamin ^a   Pappin, Darryl J ^a   Chen, Caifu ^b   Gordon, Assaf ^a   Hannon, Gregory J ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Applied Biosystems   (United States)

Author keywords

Armitage; Drosophila; Piwi; Primary piRNA; Squash; Zucchini

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARMITAGE; PROTEIN ZUCCHINI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; FEMALE; MUTATION; RNA HELICASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ANIMALIA; CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. MELOPEPO;

EID: 78149472020     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1968110     Document Type: Article

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