The mosquito Aedes aegypti has a large genome size and high transposable element load but contains a low proportion of transposon-specific piRNAs

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Arensburger, Peter ^a   Hice, Robert H ^a   Wright, Jennifer A ^a   Craig, Nancy L ^b   Atkinson, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; INSECT GENOME; JAM GENE; MALESTROM GENE; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS GENE; AEDES; ANIMAL; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GENOME;

AEDES AEGYPTI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 83455201571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-606     Document Type: Article

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