Gender-specific hierarchy in nuage localization of PIWI-interacting RNA factors in Drosophila

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  Nagao, Akihiro ^a   Sato, Kaoru ^a   Nishida, Kazumichi M ^a   Siomi, Haruhiko ^a   Siomi, Mikiko C ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Germline; Nuage; piRNA; PIWI

Indexed keywords

SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 84869214913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2011.00055     Document Type: Article

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