Invertebrate immune systems–not homogeneous, not simple, not well understood

ES Loker, CM Adema, SM Zhang… - Immunological …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The approximate 30 extant invertebrate phyla have diversified along separate evolutionary
trajectories for hundreds of millions of years. Although recent work understandably has …

RNAi and heterochromatin assembly

R Martienssen, D Moazed - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The involvement of RNA interference (RNAi) in heterochromatin formation has become clear
largely through studies in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and plants like …

[图书][B] Evolutionary parasitology: the integrated study of infections, immunology, ecology, and genetics

P Schmid-Hempel - 2021 - books.google.com
Parasites and infectious diseases are everywhere and represent some of the most potent
forces shaping the natural world. They affect almost every aspect imaginable in the life of …

[图书][B] Evolution in four dimensions, revised edition: Genetic, epigenetic, behavioral, and symbolic variation in the history of life

E Jablonka, MJ Lamb - 2014 - books.google.com
A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to
reflect the most recent research This updated edition of the widely read Evolution in Four …

[HTML][HTML] Functional siRNAs and miRNAs exhibit strand bias

A Khvorova, A Reynolds, SD Jayasena - Cell, 2003 - cell.com
Both microRNAs (miRNA) and small interfering RNAs (siRNA) share a common set of
cellular proteins (Dicer and the RNA-induced silencing complex [RISC]) to elicit RNA …

Human Argonaute2 mediates RNA cleavage targeted by miRNAs and siRNAs

G Meister, M Landthaler, A Patkaniowska, Y Dorsett… - Molecular cell, 2004 - cell.com
Argonaute proteins associate with small RNAs that guide mRNA degradation, translational
repression, or a combination of both. The human Argonaute family has eight members, four …

A microRNA in a multiple-turnover RNAi enzyme complex

G Hutvagner, PD Zamore - Science, 2002 - science.org
In animals, the double-stranded RNA-specific endonuclease Dicer produces two classes of
functionally distinct, tiny RNAs: microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) …

Novel and stress-regulated microRNAs and other small RNAs from Arabidopsis

R Sunkar, JK Zhu - The Plant Cell, 2004 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that
have recently emerged as important regulators of mRNA degradation, translational …

Control of leaf morphogenesis by microRNAs

JF Palatnik, E Allen, X Wu, C Schommer, R Schwab… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Plants with altered microRNA metabolism have pleiotropic developmental defects, but direct
evidence for microRNAs regulating specific aspects of plant morphogenesis has been …

[HTML][HTML] Single-stranded antisense siRNAs guide target RNA cleavage in RNAi

J Martinez, A Patkaniowska, H Urlaub, R Lührmann… - Cell, 2002 - cell.com
Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are the mediators of mRNA degradation in the process of
RNA interference (RNAi). Here, we describe a human biochemical system that recapitulates …