Piwi is required in multiple cell types to control germline stem cell lineage development in the Drosophila ovary

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Ma, Xing ^a,b   Wang, Su ^a,b   Do, Trieu ^a   Song, Xiaoqing ^a   Inaba, Mayu ^c   Nishimoto, Yoshiya ^a   Liu, Lu Ping ^d   Gao, Yuan ^d   Mao, Ying ^d   Li, Hui ^d   McDowell, William ^a   Park, Jungeun ^a   Malanowski, Kate ^a   Peak, Allison ^a   Perera, Anoja ^a   Li, Hua ^a   Gaudenz, Karin ^a   Haug, Jeff ^a   Yamashita, Yukiko ^c   Lin, Haifan ^e   Ni, Jian Quan ^d   Xie, Ting ^a,b   more..

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d School of Medicine Tsinghua University ^*  (China)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; PIWI PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PIWI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DPP GENE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GERMLINE STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PIWI GENE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DNA DAMAGE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; OVARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84899117158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090267     Document Type: Article

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