RDC complex executes a dynamic piRNA program during Drosophila spermatogenesis to safeguard male fertility

piRNA-mediated gene regulation and adaptation to sex-specific transposon expression in D. melanogaster male germline

(2021) Peiwei Chen et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

piRNA silencing contributes to interspecies hybrid sterility and reproductive isolation in Drosophila melanogaster

(2019) Alexei A Kotov et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The modular mechanism of chromocenter formation in Drosophila

(2019) Madhav Jagannathan et al.   eLife

A Heterochromatin-Specific RNA Export Pathway Facilitates piRNA Production

(2019) Mostafa F. ElMaghraby et al.   CELL

Nuclear RNA export factor variant initiates piRNA‐guided co‐transcriptional silencing

(2019) Kensaku Murano et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Specialization of the Drosophila nuclear export family protein Nxf3 for piRNA precursor export

(2019) Emma Kneuss et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

A Pandas complex adapted for piRNA-guided transcriptional silencing and heterochromatin formation

(2019) Kang Zhao et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

The nascent RNA binding complex SFiNX licenses piRNA-guided heterochromatin formation

(2019) Julia Batki et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Maelstrom Represses Canonical Polymerase II Transcription within Bi-directional piRNA Clusters in Drosophila melanogaster

(2018) Timothy H. Chang et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

PIWI-interacting RNAs: small RNAs with big functions

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

Piwi Is Required during Drosophila Embryogenesis to License Dual-Strand piRNA Clusters for Transposon Repression in Adult Ovaries

(2017) Abdou Akkouche et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

A heterochromatin-dependent transcription machinery drives piRNA expression

(2017) Peter Refsing Andersen et al.   NATURE

Cutoff Suppresses RNA Polymerase II Termination to Ensure Expression of piRNA Precursors

(2016) Yung-Chia Ariel Chen et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

The piRNA pathway is developmentally regulated during spermatogenesis inDrosophila

(2016) Emilie Quénerch'du et al.   RNA

Silencio/CG9754 connects the Piwi–piRNA complex to the cellular heterochromatin machinery

(2015) Grzegorz Sienski et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Panoramix enforces piRNA-dependent cotranscriptional silencing

(2015) Y. Yu et al.   SCIENCE

The Rhino-Deadlock-Cutoff Complex Licenses Noncanonical Transcription of Dual-Strand piRNA Clusters in Drosophila

(2014) Fabio Mohn et al.   CELL

The HP1 Homolog Rhino Anchors a Nuclear Complex that Suppresses piRNA Precursor Splicing

(2014) Zhao Zhang et al.   CELL

Transgenerationally inherited piRNAs trigger piRNA biogenesis by changing the chromatin of piRNA clusters and inducing precursor processing

(2014) Adrien Le Thomas et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Diversity and dynamics of the Drosophila transcriptome

(2014) James B. Brown et al.   NATURE

Alternative Germ Cell Death Pathway in Drosophila Involves HtrA2/Omi, Lysosomes, and a Caspase-9 Counterpart

(2013) Keren Yacobi-Sharon et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Multiple roles for Piwi in silencing Drosophila transposons

(2013) N. V. Rozhkov et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

DmGTSF1 is necessary for Piwi-piRISC-mediated transcriptional transposon silencing in the Drosophila ovary

(2013) H. Ohtani et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Drosophila Gtsf1 is an essential component of the Piwi-mediated transcriptional silencing complex

(2013) D. Donertas et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Piwi induces piRNA-guided transcriptional silencing and establishment of a repressive chromatin state

(2013) A. Le Thomas et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

A Genome-wide RNAi Screen Draws a Genetic Framework for Transposon Control and Primary piRNA Biogenesis in Drosophila

(2013) Felix Muerdter et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

The Genetic Makeup of the Drosophila piRNA Pathway

(2013) Dominik Handler et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

A Transcriptome-wide RNAi Screen in the Drosophila Ovary Reveals Factors of the Germline piRNA Pathway

(2013) Benjamin Czech et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV): high-performance genomics data visualization and exploration

(2012) H. Thorvaldsdottir et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Transcriptional Silencing of Transposons by Piwi and Maelstrom and Its Impact on Chromatin State and Gene Expression

(2012) Grzegorz Sienski et al.   CELL

Paramutation in Drosophila linked to emergence of a piRNA-producing locus

(2012) Augustin de Vanssay et al.   NATURE

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

(2012) Johannes Schindelin et al.   NATURE METHODS

piRNA Production Requires Heterochromatin Formation in Drosophila

(2011) Prashanth Rangan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A novel organelle, the piNG-body, in the nuage of Drosophila male germ cells is associated with piRNA-mediated gene silencing

(2011) Mikhail V. Kibanov et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Heterotypic piRNA Ping-Pong Requires Qin, a Protein with Both E3 Ligase and Tudor Domains

(2011) Zhao Zhang et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Integrative genomics viewer

(2011) James T Robinson et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Drosophila Piwi functions downstream of piRNA production mediating a chromatin-based transposon silencing mechanism in female germ line

(2011) S. H. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biogenesis pathways of piRNAs loaded onto AGO3 in the Drosophila testis

(2010) A. Nagao et al.   RNA

Multiple Roles for Heterochromatin Protein 1 Genes in Drosophila

(2009) Danielle Vermaak et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Specialized piRNA Pathways Act in Germline and Somatic Tissues of the Drosophila Ovary

(2009) Colin D. Malone et al.   CELL

Collapse of Germline piRNAs in the Absence of Argonaute3 Reveals Somatic piRNAs in Flies

(2009) Chengjian Li et al.   CELL

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

(2009) Carla Klattenhoff et al.   CELL

An Epigenetic Role for Maternally Inherited piRNAs in Transposon Silencing

(2008) J. Brennecke et al.   SCIENCE