C. elegans piRNAs mediate the genome-wide surveillance of germline transcripts

Cell

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 78-87

  Lee, Heng Chi ^a   Gu, Weifeng ^a   Shirayama, Masaki ^a   Youngman, Elaine ^a   Conte Jr , Darryl ^a   Mello, Craig C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; NONHUMAN; PRG 1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84863624978     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.06.016     Document Type: Article

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