Nuclear RNAi contributes to the silencing of off-target genes and repetitive sequences in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 121-132

  Zhou, Xufei ^a   Xu, Fei ^a   Hui, Mao ^a   Ji, Jiaojiao ^a   Yin, Meng ^a   Feng, Xuezhu ^a   Guang, Shouhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENOMICS; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALLELE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETIC LOCI; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84901332420     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.159780     Document Type: Article

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