Intercepting noncoding messages between germline and soma

Genes and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 1774-1779

  Gao, Shan ^a   Liu, Yifan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA elimination; Epigenetics; Small RNA; Tetrahymena

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TETRAHYMENA;

DNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA STABILITY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TETRAHYMENA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84865105832     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.199992.112     Document Type: Article

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