Large Drosophila germline piRNA clusters are evolutionarily labile and dispensable for transposon regulation
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DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.07.011
Abstract: Summary PIWI proteins and their guiding Piwi-interacting small RNAs (piRNAs) are crucial for fertility and transposon defense in the animal germline. In most species, the majority of piRNAs are produced from distinct large genomic loci,… read more here.
Keywords: pirna clusters; evolutionarily labile; transposon; transposon regulation ... See more keywords