Characterization of RNA interference in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis reveals partial target silencing but lack of small RNA amplification

• Yael Admoni ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yael.admoni@mail.huji.ac.il (YA); yehu.moran@mail.huji.ac.il (YM)

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Magda Lewandowska,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Reuven Aharoni,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Junchao Shi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: China National Centre for Bioinformation and Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  Affiliation Molecular Medicine Program, Department of Human Genetics, and Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Xudong Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Medicine Program, Department of Human Genetics, and Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Qi Chen,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Medicine Program, Department of Human Genetics, and Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Yehu Moran

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yael.admoni@mail.huji.ac.il (YA); yehu.moran@mail.huji.ac.il (YM)

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9928-9294

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