In Drosophila melanogaster the COM Locus Directs the Somatic Silencing of Two Retrotransposons through both Piwi-Dependent and -Independent Pathways

Sophie Desset; Nicolas Buchon; Carine Meignin; Michael Coiffet; Chantal Vaury

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001526

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In Drosophila melanogaster the COM Locus Directs the Somatic Silencing of Two Retrotransposons through both Piwi-Dependent and -Independent Pathways

Sophie Desset ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Desset, Nicolas Buchon

Affiliation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR6247-GReD, Clermont Université; INSERM, Faculté de Médecine, BP38, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Nicolas Buchon ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Desset, Nicolas Buchon

Affiliation Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Carine Meignin,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Michael Coiffet,

Affiliation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR6247-GReD, Clermont Université; INSERM, Faculté de Médecine, BP38, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Chantal Vaury

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Chantal.VAURY@inserm.u-clermont1.fr

Affiliation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR6247-GReD, Clermont Université; INSERM, Faculté de Médecine, BP38, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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In Drosophila melanogaster the COM Locus Directs the Somatic Silencing of Two Retrotransposons through both Piwi-Dependent and -Independent Pathways

Sophie Desset,
Nicolas Buchon,
Carine Meignin,
Michael Coiffet,
Chantal Vaury

Published: February 6, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001526

About the Authors

Sophie Desset

Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Desset, Nicolas Buchon

Affiliation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR6247-GReD, Clermont Université; INSERM, Faculté de Médecine, BP38, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Nicolas Buchon

Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Desset, Nicolas Buchon

Affiliation Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Carine Meignin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Michael Coiffet

Affiliation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR6247-GReD, Clermont Université; INSERM, Faculté de Médecine, BP38, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Chantal Vaury

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Chantal.VAURY@inserm.u-clermont1.fr

Affiliation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR6247-GReD, Clermont Université; INSERM, Faculté de Médecine, BP38, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CV SD NB CM. Performed the experiments: SD NB CM. Analyzed the data: CV SD NB CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC. Wrote the paper: CV.

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