The piRNA pathway mediates transcriptional silencing of LTR retrotransposons in ovaries and somatic tissues of Aedes mosquitoes
Ezgi Taşköprü, Nynke B van Eijk, Femke A.H. van Hout, Marianna Bacchi, Gijs J. Overheul, Charlotte Linthout, Constantianus J. M. Koenraadt, Jieqiong Qu, Pascal Miesen, Rebecca Halbach, Ronald P. van Rij
This study shows that Piwi6 in Aedes mosquitoes suppresses LTR retrotransposons in both gonadal and somatic tissues by guiding H3K9me3 histone deposition.
Nucleic Acids Research · Aug 11, 2026Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology