Conserved piRNA Expression from a Distinct Set of piRNA Cluster Loci in Eutherian Mammals

• Gung-wei Chirn ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gung-wei Chirn, Reazur Rahman, Yuliya A. Sytnikova, Jessica A. Matts

  Current address: iBioinfo Group LLC, Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Reazur Rahman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gung-wei Chirn, Reazur Rahman, Yuliya A. Sytnikova, Jessica A. Matts

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Yuliya A. Sytnikova ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gung-wei Chirn, Reazur Rahman, Yuliya A. Sytnikova, Jessica A. Matts

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jessica A. Matts ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gung-wei Chirn, Reazur Rahman, Yuliya A. Sytnikova, Jessica A. Matts

  Current address: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Mei Zeng,

  Current address: Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Daniel Gerlach,

  Current address: Boehringer Ingelheim, Vienna, Austria

  Affiliation Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria

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• Michael Yu,

  Current address: University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Mathematics Department and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Bonnie Berger,

  Affiliation Mathematics Department and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Mayumi Naramura,

  Affiliation Eppley Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Benjamin T. Kile,

  Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia

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• Nelson C. Lau

  * E-mail: nlau@brandeis.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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