ArticleBMC biology2014
Fly piRNA biogenesis: tap dancing with Tej.
Article in BMC biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.
- PIWI-Interacting RNAs in Cardiovascular Disease: From Epigenetic Regulators to Clinical Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- PiRNA in Cardiovascular Disease: Focus on Cardiac Remodeling and Cardiac Protection.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2023Review
- Transposable Element Misregulation Is Linked to the Divergence between Parental piRNA Pathways in Drosophila Hybrids.Genome biology and evolution · 2017Article
- Developmental piRNA profiles of the invasive vector mosquito Aedes albopictus.Parasites & vectors · 2016Article
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Abstract
Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) protect animal germlines from the deleterious effects of transposon activity. Unlike other small RNA classes like microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), an exceptionally large number of factors are implicated in the biogenesis of piRNAs. Kai et al. have now added another one to this growing list, which we discuss in the overall context of our current knowledge of the piRNA biogenesis pathway in the Drosophila ovarian germline. See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/12/61.
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