Piwi and piRNAs act upstream of an endogenous siRNA pathway to suppress Tc3 transposon mobility in the Caenorhabditis elegans germline.

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Published in Mol Cell on June 19, 2008

Authors

Partha P Das1, Marloes P Bagijn, Leonard D Goldstein, Julie R Woolford, Nicolas J Lehrbach, Alexandra Sapetschnig, Heeran R Buhecha, Michael J Gilchrist, Kevin L Howe, Rory Stark, Nik Matthews, Eugene Berezikov, René F Ketting, Simon Tavaré, Eric A Miska

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1: Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK.

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