Retrotransposon-centered analysis of piRNA targeting shows a shift from active to passive retrotransposon transcription in developing mouse testes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mourier, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC LOCI; MALE; MICE; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80052165389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-440     Document Type: Article

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