2016
Tudor-SN Interacts with Piwi Antagonistically in Regulating Spermatogenesis but Synergistically in Silencing Transposons in Drosophila
Ku HY, Gangaraju VK, Qi H, Liu N, Lin H. Tudor-SN Interacts with Piwi Antagonistically in Regulating Spermatogenesis but Synergistically in Silencing Transposons in Drosophila. PLOS Genetics 2016, 12: e1005813. PMID: 26808625, PMCID: PMC4726654, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005813.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPiRNA biogenesisPrimordial germ cellsPiwi expressionTudor-SNSomatic cellsGerm cellsDiverse molecular functionsPost-transcriptional regulationEmbryonic somatic cellsPiwi mutantsDosage-dependent mannerGermline developmentPIWI proteinsMutant phenotypeMeiotic cytokinesisMolecular functionsSpliceosome assemblyPiwiEpigenetic programmingDiverse functionsBiological functionsAdult ovariesBiogenesisTransposonMale fertility
2014
Generation of transgenic Hydra by embryo microinjection.
Juliano CE, Lin H, Steele RE. Generation of transgenic Hydra by embryo microinjection. Journal Of Visualized Experiments 2014, 51888. PMID: 25285460, PMCID: PMC4828061, DOI: 10.3791/51888.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTransgenic HydraFundamental biological processesEarly stage embryosPatches of tissuePure cell populationsMulticellular animalsStudy of regenerationGene functionMolecular functionsPhylum CnidariaParticular lineageTransgenic linesGene perturbationsSister groupTransgenic tissuesTransgenic methodsPromoter functionAsexual propagationBiological processesEmbryo microinjectionStage embryosLive cellsStem cellsHatchlingsBiochemical analysis