MIWI N-terminal RG motif promotes efficient pachytene piRNA production and spermatogenesis independent of LINE1 transposon silencing

• Chao Wei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Wei, Jiongjie Jing

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

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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• Jiongjie Jing ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Wei, Jiongjie Jing

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Clinical and Translational Research Center of Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, Frontier Science Center for Stem Cell Research, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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• Xiaoyuan Yan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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• Jeffrey M. Mann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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• Ruirong Geng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Clinical and Translational Research Center of Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, Frontier Science Center for Stem Cell Research, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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• Huirong Xie,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Transgenic and Genome Editing Facility, Institute for Quantitative Health Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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• Elena Y. Demireva,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Transgenic and Genome Editing Facility, Institute for Quantitative Health Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4708-5836

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• Rex A. Hess,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Deqiang Ding ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dingdeqiang@tongji.edu.cn (DD); chen2@msu.edu (CC)

  Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Clinical and Translational Research Center of Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, Frontier Science Center for Stem Cell Research, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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• Chen Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dingdeqiang@tongji.edu.cn (DD); chen2@msu.edu (CC)

  Affiliations Department of Animal Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Reproductive and Developmental Sciences Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9159-4489

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