Formation of spermatogonia and fertile oocytes in golden hamsters requires piRNAs

Hamster PIWI proteins bind to piRNAs with stage-specific size variations during oocyte maturation

(2021) Kyoko Ishino et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The piRNA pathway is essential for generating functional oocytes in golden hamsters

(2021) Hongdao Zhang et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Production of functional oocytes requires maternally expressed PIWI genes and piRNAs in golden hamsters

(2021) Hidetoshi Hasuwa et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

The most abundant maternal lncRNA Sirena1 acts post-transcriptionally and impacts mitochondrial distribution

(2020) Sravya Ganesh et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Acrosin is essential for sperm penetration through the zona pellucida in hamsters

(2020) Michiko Hirose et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 Infection of Animal Hosts

(2020) Ahmed S. Abdel-Moneim et al.   Pathogens

Creation of CRISPR-based germline-genome-engineered mice without ex vivo handling of zygotes by i-GONAD

(2019) Channabasavaiah B. Gurumurthy et al.   Nature Protocols

Single-cell CAS-seq reveals a class of short PIWI-interacting RNAs in human oocytes

(2019) Qiyuan Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Analysis of Long Non-Coding RNA and mRNA Expression Profiling in Immature and Mature Bovine (Bos taurus) Testes

(2019) Yuan Gao et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Restricted and non-essential redundancy of RNAi and piRNA pathways in mouse oocytes

(2019) Eliska Taborska et al.   PLoS Genetics

Tools and best practices for retrotransposon analysis using high-throughput sequencing data

(2019) Aurélie Teissandier et al.   Mobile DNA

Defective germline reprogramming rewires the spermatogonial transcriptome

(2018) Lina Vasiliauskaitė et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Defective germline reprogramming rewires the spermatogonial transcriptome

(2018) Lina Vasiliauskaitė et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

MIWI2 targets RNAs transcribed from piRNA‐dependent regions to drive DNA methylation in mouse prospermatogonia

(2018) Toshiaki Watanabe et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

PIWI-interacting RNAs: small RNAs with big functions

(2018) Deniz M. Ozata et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

DAZL is a master translational regulator of murine spermatogenesis

(2018) Haixin Li et al.   National Science Review

UMI-tools: modeling sequencing errors in Unique Molecular Identifiers to improve quantification accuracy

(2017) Tom Smith et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Long terminal repeats power evolution of genes and gene expression programs in mammalian oocytes and zygotes

(2017) Vedran Franke et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Meiotic Genes Are Enriched in Regions of Reduced Archaic Ancestry

(2017) B. Jégou et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Conserved roles of mouse DUX and human DUX4 in activating cleavage-stage genes and MERVL/HERVL retrotransposons

(2017) Peter G Hendrickson et al.   NATURE GENETICS

L1Base 2: more retrotransposition-active LINE-1s, more mammalian genomes

(2016) Tobias Penzkofer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The RNA helicase MOV10L1 binds piRNA precursors to initiate piRNA processing

(2015) Anastassios Vourekas et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Piwi Proteins and piRNAs in Mammalian Oocytes and Early Embryos

(2015) Elke F. Roovers et al.   Cell Reports

Conserved piRNA Expression from a Distinct Set of piRNA Cluster Loci in Eutherian Mammals

(2015) Gung-wei Chirn et al.   PLoS Genetics

A comparative encyclopedia of DNA elements in the mouse genome

(2014) Feng Yue et al.   NATURE

PIWI Proteins Are Dispensable for Mouse Somatic Development and Reprogramming of Fibroblasts into Pluripotent Stem Cells

(2014) Ee-Chun Cheng et al.   PLoS One

Fine mapping of genome activation in bovine embryos by RNA sequencing

(2014) A. Graf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

G9a co-suppresses LINE1 elements in spermatogonia

(2014) Monica Di Giacomo et al.   Epigenetics & Chromatin

A simple, inexpensive method for preparing cell lysates suitable for downstream reverse transcription quantitative PCR

(2014) Kenneth Shatzkes et al.   Scientific Reports

Comprehensive RNA-Seq transcriptomic profiling across 11 organs, 4 ages, and 2 sexes of Fischer 344 rats

(2014) Ying Yu et al.   Scientific Data

featureCounts: an efficient general purpose program for assigning sequence reads to genomic features

(2013) Y. Liao et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A Retrotransposon-Driven Dicer Isoform Directs Endogenous Small Interfering RNA Production in Mouse Oocytes

(2013) Matyas Flemr et al.   CELL

The nuage mediates retrotransposon silencing in mouse primordial ovarian follicles

(2013) A. K. Lim et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Multiple Epigenetic Mechanisms and the piRNA Pathway Enforce LINE1 Silencing during Adult Spermatogenesis

(2013) Monica Di Giacomo et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Argonaute proteins: functional insights and emerging roles

(2013) Gunter Meister   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

(2012) Alexander Dobin et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

clusterProfiler: an R Package for Comparing Biological Themes Among Gene Clusters

(2012) Guangchuang Yu et al.   OMICS-A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY

Env-less endogenous retroviruses are genomic superspreaders

(2012) G. Magiorkinis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bismark: a flexible aligner and methylation caller for Bisulfite-Seq applications

(2011) Felix Krueger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The endonuclease activity of Mili fuels piRNA amplification that silences LINE1 elements

(2011) Serena De Fazio et al.   NATURE

BigWig and BigBed: enabling browsing of large distributed datasets

(2010) W. J. Kent et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Mouse MOV10L1 associates with Piwi proteins and is an essential component of the Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway

(2010) K. Zheng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MOV10L1 is necessary for protection of spermatocytes against retrotransposons by Piwi-interacting RNAs

(2010) R. J. A. Frost et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A Broadly Conserved Pathway Generates 3′UTR-Directed Primary piRNAs

(2009) Nicolas Robine et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

DNA methylation of retrotransposon genes is regulated by Piwi family members MILI and MIWI2 in murine fetal testes

(2008) S. Kuramochi-Miyagawa et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

An infectious progenitor for the murine IAP retrotransposon: Emergence of an intracellular genetic parasite from an ancient retrovirus

(2008) D. Ribet et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Gonadotropin-regulated Testicular Helicase (DDX25), an Essential Regulator of Spermatogenesis, Prevents Testicular Germ Cell Apoptosis

(2008) Ravi K. Gutti et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY