Reduced Insulin/IGF-1 Signaling Restores Germ Cell Immortality to Caenorhabditis elegans Piwi Mutants

Defects in the Piwi/piRNA pathway lead to transposon desilencing and immediate sterility in many organisms. We found that the C. elegans Piwi mutant prg-1 became sterile after growth for many generations. This phenotype did not occur for RNAi mutants with strong transposon-silencing defects and was...

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Main Authors: Matt Simon, Peter Sarkies, Kohta Ikegami, Anna-Lisa Doebley, Leonard D. Goldstein, Jacinth Mitchell, Aisa Sakaguchi, Eric A. Miska, Shawn Ahmed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-05-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124714002538