RNAi pathways contribute to developmental historydependent phenotypic plasticity in C. elegans

RNA

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 306-319

  Hall, Sarah E ^a,b   Chirn, Gung Wei ^a   Lau, Nelson C ^a   Sengupta, Piali ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Chromatin; Dauer; Gene expression; RNAi; SiRNA

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, HELMINTH; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84874335133     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.036418.112     Document Type: Article

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