Paramutation in Drosophila linked to emergence of a piRNA-producing locus

Nature

Volumn 490, Issue 7418, 2012, Pages 112-115

  De Vanssay, Augustin ^a,c   Bougé, Anne Laure ^b,d   Boivin, Antoine ^a   Hermant, Catherine ^a   Teysset, Laure ^a   Delmarre, Valérie ^a   Antoniewski, Christophe ^a,b   Ronsseray, Stéphane ^a  

^a Université René Descartes   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE GÉNOMIQUE FONCTIONNELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER; DICER 2; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; CHROMOSOME; CYTOPLASM; EMERGENCE; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC MODEL; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LOCI; GERM CELLS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OVARY; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA HELICASES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 84867064532     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11416     Document Type: Article

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