Piwi and Potency: PIWI Proteins in Animal Stem Cells and Regeneration
van Wolfswinkel JC. Piwi and Potency: PIWI Proteins in Animal Stem Cells and Regeneration. Integrative And Comparative Biology 2014, 54: 700-713. PMID: 24948137, DOI: 10.1093/icb/icu084.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPIWI proteinsSomatic stem cellsStem cellsDifferent animal phylaGerm cell lineageStem cell systemAnimal stem cellsAnimal germlineGermline developmentAncestral roleAnimal phylaDiverse animalsCell lineagesDifferentiation potentialProteinGermlineCell systemCellsSuch cellsPiwiPiRNAsPhylaLineagesTransposonAvailable reveals