Widespread expression of piRNA-like molecules in somatic tissues

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 6596-6607

  Yan, Zheng ^a   Hu, Hai Yang ^a   Jiang, Xi ^a   Maierhofer, Vera ^a   Neb, Elena ^a   He, Liu ^a,b   Hu, Yuhui ^c   Hu, Hao ^d   Li, Na ^c   Chen, Wei ^c,d   Khaitovich, Philipp ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GERM LINE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MACACA; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS; PIWI GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; TISSUE SECTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; MACACA MULATTA; METABOLISM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; MUS;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 80055071064     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr298     Document Type: Article

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