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(Submitter supplied) Transposable elements (TEs) can damage genomes, thus organisms employ a variety of mechanisms to repress TE expression. The PIWI-piRNA pathway is a small RNA pathway that represses TE expression in the germline of animals. Here we explore the function of the pathway in the somatic stem cells of Hydra, a long-lived freshwater cnidarian. Hydra have three stem cell populations, all of which express PIWI proteins; endodermal and ectodermal epithelial stem cells are somatic, whereas the interstitial stem cells have germline competence. more...

Organism:

Hydra vulgaris

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing; Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platforms:

GPL25712 GPL27013

12 Samples

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