Transposon-taming piRNAs in the germline: Where do they come from?

Discrete Small RNA-Generating Loci as Master Regulators of Transposon Activity in Drosophila

Julius Brennecke, Alexei A. Aravin, Alexander Stark et al. · Cell · 2007 · 2.5K citations · Full text

Transcriptional Regulation, Developmental Biology, Master Regulators +11

A Distinct Small RNA Pathway Silences Selfish Genetic Elements in the Germline

Vasily V. Vagin, Alla A. Sigova, Chengjian Li et al. · Science · 2006 · 1.3K citations

A piRNA Pathway Primed by Individual Transposons Is Linked to De Novo DNA Methylation in Mice

Alexei A. Aravin, Ravi Sachidanandam, Déborah Bourc’his et al. · Molecular Cell · 2008 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Chromatin, Pirna Pathway Primed, Developmental Biology +12

Double-stranded RNA-mediated silencing of genomic tandem repeats and transposable elements in the D. melanogaster germline

Alexei A. Aravin, Natalia M. Naumova, Alexei V. Tulin et al. · Current Biology · 2001 · 798 citations · Full text

Double-stranded Rna-mediated Silencing, Genetics, Rna Splicing +8

The Drosophila HP1 Homolog Rhino Is Required for Transposon Silencing and piRNA Production by Dual-Strand Clusters

Carla Klattenhoff, Hualin Simon Xi, Chengjian Li et al. · Cell · 2009 · 461 citations · Full text

Developmental Biology, Natural Sciences, Genetics +9