Monday, June 4, 2018

in vivo RNAi screen focused on the female germline

Cho Y, Lai CM, Lin KY, Hsu HJ. A Targeted RNAi Screen Reveals Drosophila Female-Sterile Genes That Control the Size of Germline Stem Cell Niche During Development. G3 (Bethesda). 2018 May 15. PMID: 29764959.

From the abstract: "... we conducted a small-scale RNAi screen of 560 individually expressed UAS-RNAi lines with targets implicated in female fertility. RNAi was expressed in the soma of larval gonads, and screening for reduced egg production and abnormal ovarian morphology was performed in adults. Twenty candidates that affect ovarian development were identified and subsequently knocked down in the soma only during niche formation. ..."

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