Analyses of piRNA-mediated transcriptional transposon silencing in Drosophila: Nuclear run-on assay on ovaries

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1093, Issue , 2014, Pages 149-159

  Shpiz, Sergey ^a   Kalmykova, Alla ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Drosophila; Gene silencing; Nuclear run on; piRNA; Transcription; Transposon

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LOCI; OVARY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84921794957     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-694-8_12     Document Type: Article

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