A single female-specific piRNA is the primary determiner of sex in the silkworm

Nature

Volumn 509, Issue 7502, 2014, Pages 633-636

  Kiuchi, Takashi ^a   Koga, Hikaru ^a   Kawamoto, Munetaka ^a   Shoji, Keisuke ^a   Sakai, Hiroki ^b   Arai, Yuji ^a   Ishihara, Genki ^a   Kawaoka, Shinpei ^a   Sugano, Sumio ^b   Shimada, Toru ^a   Suzuki, Yutaka ^b   Suzuki, Masataka G ^b   Katsuma, Susumu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FEM PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MASC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; MOTH; PROTEIN; REPTILE; RNA; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; BOMBYX MORI; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT GENETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPOSON;

AVES; BOMBYX MORI; REPTILIA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

EID: 84901683587     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13315     Document Type: Article

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