History of the discovery of a master locus producing piRNAs: The flamenco/COM locus in Drosophila melanogaster

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Goriaux, Coline ^a,b,c   Théron, Emmanuelle ^a,b,c   Brasset, Emilie ^a,b,c   Vaury, Chantal ^a,b,c  

^a Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^b NSERM U 1103   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

COM; Drosophila melanogaster; Flamenco; piRNA cluster; Transposable elements; heterochromatin

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA;

CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIGENETICS; FLAMENCO GENE LOCUS; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GYPSY TRANSPOSON; HETEROCHROMATIN; IDEFIX TRANSPOSON; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSPOSON; ZAM TRANSPOSON;

EID: 84906240383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00257     Document Type: Review

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