piRNA pathway and the potential processing site, the nuage, in the Drosophila germline

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-77

  Pek, Jun Wei ^a   Patil, Veena S ^b   Kai, Toshie ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Germline; Nuage; Piwi interacting RNA

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PROTEIN ARGONAUTE3; PROTEIN AUBERGINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GAMETE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TRANSFER; GERM LINE; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSPOSON;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BIOGENESIS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELLS; MALE; MUTATION; OVARY; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; RNA, MESSENGER, STORED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 84855957812     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2011.01316.x     Document Type: Review

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