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

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

(2021) Kyoko Ishino et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Formation of spermatogonia and fertile oocytes in golden hamsters requires piRNAs

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

(2021) Hongdao Zhang et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

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

TEX15 associates with MILI and silences transposable elements in male germ cells

(2020) Fang Yang et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Pathogenesis and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in golden hamsters

(2020) Sin Fun Sia et al.   NATURE

SPOCD1 is an essential executor of piRNA-directed de novo DNA methylation

(2020) Ansgar Zoch et al.   NATURE

Recent advances in the nucleolar responses to DNA double-strand breaks

(2020) Lea Milling Korsholm et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Histone H3K9 Methyltransferase G9a in Oocytes Is Essential for Preimplantation Development but Dispensable for CG Methylation Protection

(2019) Wan Kin Au Yeung et al.   Cell Reports

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

(2019) Qiyuan Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype

(2019) Daehwan Kim et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

Deep sequencing and high-throughput analysis of PIWI-associated small RNAs

(2017) Yuka W. Iwasaki et al.   METHODS

Differential analysis of RNA-seq incorporating quantification uncertainty

(2017) Harold Pimentel et al.   NATURE METHODS

Salmon provides fast and bias-aware quantification of transcript expression

(2017) Rob Patro et al.   NATURE METHODS

The SETD8/PR-Set7 Methyltransferase Functions as a Barrier to Prevent Senescence-Associated Metabolic Remodeling

(2017) Hiroshi Tanaka et al.   Cell Reports

Piwi Modulates Chromatin Accessibility by Regulating Multiple Factors Including Histone H1 to Repress Transposons

(2016) Yuka W. Iwasaki et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

PIWI-Interacting RNA: Its Biogenesis and Functions

(2015) Yuka W. Iwasaki et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Comprehensive DNA Methylation Analysis of Retrotransposons in Male Germ Cells

(2015) Ippei Nagamori et al.   Cell Reports

Piwi Proteins and piRNAs in Mammalian Oocytes and Early Embryos

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

CRISPRdirect: software for designing CRISPR/Cas guide RNA with reduced off-target sites

(2014) Yuki Naito et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Two waves of de novo methylation during mouse germ cell development

(2014) A. Molaro et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

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

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

Efficient Gene Targeting in Golden Syrian Hamsters by the CRISPR/Cas9 System

(2014) Zhiqiang Fan et al.   PLoS One

Small RNA profiling and characterization of piRNA clusters in the adult testes of the common marmoset, a model primate

(2014) Takamasa Hirano et al.   RNA

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

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

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The nuage mediates retrotransposon silencing in mouse primordial ovarian follicles

(2013) A. K. Lim et al.   DEVELOPMENT

piRNAs and their involvement in male germline development in mice

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Mili and Miwi target RNA repertoire reveals piRNA biogenesis and function of Miwi in spermiogenesis

(2012) Anastassios Vourekas et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Amplification-free whole-genome bisulfite sequencing by post-bisulfite adaptor tagging

(2012) Fumihito Miura et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

(2011) Serena De Fazio et al.   NATURE

Miwi catalysis is required for piRNA amplification-independent LINE1 transposon silencing

(2011) Michael Reuter et al.   NATURE

Dynamic CpG island methylation landscape in oocytes and preimplantation embryos

(2011) Sébastien A Smallwood et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Ensembl BioMarts: a hub for data retrieval across taxonomic space

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MVH in piRNA processing and gene silencing of retrotransposons

(2010) S. Kuramochi-Miyagawa et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

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

Systematic and integrative analysis of large gene lists using DAVID bioinformatics resources

(2009) Da Wei Huang et al.   Nature Protocols

Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

(2009) Ben Langmead et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

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

(2008) Alexei A. Aravin et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Epigenetic events in mammalian germ-cell development: reprogramming and beyond

(2008) Hiroyuki Sasaki et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS