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Drosophila interspecific hybrids phenocopy piRNA-pathway mutants.
PLoS biology - 1 Jan 2012
Kelleher Erin S, Edelman Nathaniel B, Barbash Daniel A
Abstract excerpt
The Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway defends the germline of animals from the deleterious activity of selfish transposable elements (TEs) through small-RNA mediated silencing. Adaptation to novel invasive TEs is proposed to occur by incorporating their sequences into the piRNA pool that females produce and deposit into their eggs, which then propagates immunity against specific TEs to future generations. In...
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