"Dot COM", a Nuclear Transit Center for the Primary piRNA Pathway in Drosophila

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Dennis, Cynthia ^a,d,e   Zanni, Vanessa ^a,c,d,e   Brasset, Emilie ^a,d,e   Eymery, Angeline ^a,d,e   Zhang, Liang ^b   Mteirek, Rana ^a,d,e   Jensen, Silke ^a,d,e   Rong, Yikang S ^b   Vaury, Chantal ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPORT; CYTOPLASM; DOT COM; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCUS; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84883613240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072752     Document Type: Article

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