Specialized piRNA pathways act in germline and somatic tissues of the Drosophila ovary.

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Published in Cell on April 23, 2009

Authors

Colin D Malone1, Julius Brennecke, Monica Dus, Alexander Stark, W Richard McCombie, Ravi Sachidanandam, Gregory J Hannon

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1: Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.

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