Argonautes promote male fertility and provide a paternal memory of germline gene expression in C. Elegans

Cell

Volumn 155, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1532-1544

  Conine, Colin C ^a   Moresco, James J ^b   Gu, Weifeng ^a   Shirayama, Masaki ^a,c   Conte Jr , Darryl ^a   Yates III, John R ^b   Mello, Craig C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; ALG-4 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CSR-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; T22B3.2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; ALG 4 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CSR 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ORGANELLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HERMAPHRODITE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; MALE; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84890860526     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.11.032     Document Type: Article

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