C. elegans germ cells show temperature and age-dependent expression of Cer1, a Gypsy/Ty3-related retrotransposon

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Dennis, Shannon ^a,b,c   Sheth, Ujwal ^a,b   Feldman, Jessica L ^a,b   English, Kathryn A ^a,b   Priess, James R ^a,b,c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CER1 PROTEIN; DNA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HELMINTH DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VIABILITY; CYTOPLASM; EGG; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENOME; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE; PACHYTENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; TEMPERATURE; VIRUS LIKE AGENT; VIRUS REPLICATION; AGING; ANIMAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CAPSID;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MIRIDAE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAPSID; DNA, HELMINTH; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GERM CELLS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84861219911     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002591     Document Type: Article

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