Drosophila Males Use 5'-to-3' Phased Biogenesis to Make Stellate-silencing piRNAs that Lack Homology to Maternally Deposited piRNA Guides
Zsolt G. Venkei, Ildar V. Gainetdinov, Ayca Bagci…·Yukiko M Yamashita
The paper shows that Drosophila males produce Su(Ste) piRNAs through 5'-to-3' phased biogenesis triggered by maternally deposited piRNAs, and this process is bypassed when mothers are XXY.