Many members of the Argonaute gene family are found in the genomes of plants and animals, with an exceptional ... (miRNAs)) and function in RNA-based silencing mechanisms by altering protein ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity ... in part because of their genes. Higher genetic diversity also means there’s a greater chance of a ...

Do similar mechanisms operate in plant and animal stem cells to maintain long-term division and pluripotency? In conclusion, at least some of the genes that control the stem cell state in animals ...

Why all the fuss? Because RNAi, or more broadly, posttranscriptional gene silencing, provides a simple way to knock out genes in vivo in organisms as varied as plants, worms, flies, and mice (see ...

Instead, their methyl silencing system employs a bacterial enzyme ... “into the sequence of events that had to occur in early evolution of plants and animals,” when eukaryotic gene regulation systems ...

RNA silencing, also known as RNA interference, is a way that plants and invertebrate animals can protect themselves ... under normal conditions to control gene expression (if the gene is "turned ...