The methyltransferase HEN1 is required in Nematostella vectensis for microRNA and piRNA stability as well as larval metamorphosis

• Vengamanaidu Modepalli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vengamanaidu Modepalli, Arie Fridrich, Maayan Agron

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: vengamanaidumodepalli@gmail.com (VM); yehu.moran@mail.huji.ac.il (YM)

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

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• Arie Fridrich ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vengamanaidu Modepalli, Arie Fridrich, Maayan Agron

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

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

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• Maayan Agron ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vengamanaidu Modepalli, Arie Fridrich, Maayan Agron

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

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

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• Yehu Moran

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: vengamanaidumodepalli@gmail.com (VM); yehu.moran@mail.huji.ac.il (YM)

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

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

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