Duplication and Diversification of Dipteran Argonaute Genes, and the Evolutionary Divergence of Piwi and Aubergine

PIWI-Interacting RNA: Its Biogenesis and Functions

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

A novel gonad-specific Argonaute 4 serves as a defense against transposons in the black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon

(2015) Wantana Leebonoi et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Distinct sets of PIWI proteins produce arbovirus and transposon-derived piRNAs inAedes aegyptimosquito cells

(2015) Pascal Miesen et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Ancient and Novel Small RNA Pathways Compensate for the Loss of piRNAs in Multiple Independent Nematode Lineages

(2015) Peter Sarkies et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Not Only for Egg Yolk—Functional and Evolutionary Insights from Expression, Selection, and Structural Analyses of Formica Ant Vitellogenins

(2014) Claire Morandin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs in the soma

(2014) Robert J. Ross et al.   NATURE

Small RNAs break out: the molecular cell biology of mobile small RNAs

(2014) Peter Sarkies et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

The evolutionary journey of Argonaute proteins

(2014) Daan C Swarts et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

A Novel Highly Divergent Protein Family Identified from a Viviparous Insect by RNA-seq Analysis: A Potential Target for Tsetse Fly-Specific Abortifacients

(2014) Joshua B. Benoit et al.   PLoS Genetics

Insights into the Trypanosome-Host Interactions Revealed through Transcriptomic Analysis of Parasitized Tsetse Fly Salivary Glands

(2014) Erich Loza Telleria et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Novel Drosophila Viruses Encode Host-Specific Suppressors of RNAi

(2014) Joël T. van Mierlo et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Functional diversification of Argonautes in nematodes: an expanding universe: Figure 1

(2013) Amy H. Buck et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Knockdown of piRNA pathway proteins results in enhanced Semliki Forest virus production in mosquito cells

(2013) E. Schnettler et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

Estimating Gene Gain and Loss Rates in the Presence of Error in Genome Assembly and Annotation Using CAFE 3

(2013) Mira V. Han et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

PIWI-interacting RNAs: from generation to transgenerational epigenetics

(2013) Maartje J. Luteijn et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Editorial: NAR Surveys the Past, Present and Future of Restriction Endonucleases

(2013) W. Dynan et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Neofunctionalization of young duplicate genes in Drosophila

(2013) R. Assis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Making of a Slicer: Activation of Human Argonaute-1

(2013) Christopher R. Faehnle et al.   Cell Reports

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2012) Grzegorz Sienski et al.   CELL

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evolution of Animal and Plant Dicers: Early Parallel Duplications and Recurrent Adaptation of Antiviral RNA Binding in Plants

(2012) Krishanu Mukherjee et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Arbovirus-Derived piRNAs Exhibit a Ping-Pong Signature in Mosquito Cells

(2012) Nicolas Vodovar et al.   PLoS One

The Crystal Structure of Human Argonaute2

(2012) N. T. Schirle et al.   SCIENCE

Convergent Evolution of Argonaute-2 Slicer Antagonism in Two Distinct Insect RNA Viruses

(2012) Joël T. van Mierlo et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Production of Virus-Derived Ping-Pong-Dependent piRNA-like Small RNAs in the Mosquito Soma

(2012) Elaine M. Morazzani et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The origin and effect of small RNA signaling in plants

(2012) Jean-Sébastien Parent et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The mosquito Aedes aegypti has a large genome size and high transposable element load but contains a low proportion of transposon-specific piRNAs

(2011) Peter Arensburger et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Effects of Alignment Error and Alignment Filtering on the Sitewise Detection of Positive Selection

(2011) G. Jordan et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Expansion of Genes Encoding piRNA-Associated Argonaute Proteins in the Pea Aphid: Diversification of Expression Profiles in Different Plastic Morphs

(2011) Hsiao-ling Lu et al.   PLoS One

Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life

(2011) B. M. Wiegmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Tubulin evolution in insects: gene duplication and subfunctionalization provide specialized isoforms in a functionally constrained gene family

(2010) Mark G Nielsen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Molecular Phylogeny ofBactroceraSpecies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacini) Inferred from Mitochondrial Sequences of16S rDNAandCOISequences

(2010) Bin Zhang et al.   FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST

A supermatrix-based molecular phylogeny of the family Drosophilidae

(2010) KIM VAN DER LINDE et al.   Genetics Research

Recurrent Adaptation in RNA Interference Genes Across the Drosophila Phylogeny

(2010) B. Kolaczkowski et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Natural Variation of the Amino-Terminal Glutamine-Rich Domain in Drosophila Argonaute2 Is Not Associated with Developmental Defects

(2010) Daniel Hain et al.   PLoS One

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

(2009) Chengjian Li et al.   CELL

Distinguishing Among Evolutionary Models for the Maintenance of Gene Duplicates

(2009) M. W. Hahn   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Gene Conversion Among Paralogs Results in Moderate False Detection of Positive Selection Using Likelihood Methods

(2009) Claudio Casola et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Biogenesis of small RNAs in animals

(2009) V. Narry Kim et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

The Pfam protein families database

(2009) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Comparative genomics of small RNA regulatory pathway components in vector mosquitoes

(2008) Corey L Campbell et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Getting to the Root of miRNA-Mediated Gene Silencing

(2008) Ana Eulalio et al.   CELL

Endogenous RNA Interference Provides a Somatic Defense against Drosophila Transposons

(2008) Wei-Jen Chung et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Molecular phylogenetics of tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) based on mitochondrial (COI, 16S, ND2) and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences, with an emphasis on the palpalis group

(2008) N DYER et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

An endogenous small interfering RNA pathway in Drosophila

(2008) Benjamin Czech et al.   NATURE

The evolution of RNAi as a defence against viruses and transposable elements

(2008) D. J Obbard et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The PIWI proteins SMEDWI-2 and SMEDWI-3 are required for stem cell function and piRNA expression in planarians

(2008) D. Palakodeti et al.   RNA

Natural selection of protein structural and functional properties: a SNP perspective

(2008) Jinfeng Liu et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY