How might flukes and tapeworms maintain genome integrity without a canonical piRNA pathway?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 123-129

  Skinner, Danielle E ^a   Rinaldi, Gabriel ^a   Koziol, Uriel ^b,c   Brehm, Klaus ^b   Brindley, Paul J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Cestoda; Germline; PiRNA pathway; Piwi; Platyhelminthes; Transposable elements; Trematoda; Vasa

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE; CESTODA; GERMLINE; PIRNA PATHWAY; PIWI; PLATYHELMINTHES; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; TREMATODA; VASA;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CESTODA; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TREMATODA;

EID: 84894307369     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2014.01.001     Document Type: Review

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