GenomicsFrontiers in Cell and Developmental BiologyPeer-reviewed
Embryonic piRNAs target horizontally transferred vertebrate transposons in assassin bugs
Tarcísio Fontenele de Brito, Maira Arruda Cardoso, Nazerke Atinbayeva…·Attilio Pane
The paper shows that piRNAs in assassin bugs target horizontally transferred vertebrate transposons during embryogenesis, using a non-canonical mechanism distinct from typical ping-pong amplification.
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