The Role of piRNA-Mediated Epigenetic Silencing in the Population Dynamics of Transposable Elements in Drosophila melanogaster.
The piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNA) are small RNAs that target selfish transposable elements (TEs) in many animal genomes. Until now, piRNAs' role in TE population dynamics has only been discussed in the context of their suppression of TE transposition, which alone is not sufficient to account fo...
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| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4456100?pdf=render |