We thank Prof William E Theurkauf at University of Massachusetts Medical School for providing the Rhino plasmids. This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2011CB966304, 2012CB910502), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31270774), and the Strategic Priority Research Program (XDB08010202). We thank the staff at BL17U of Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) for their help with data collection.
Dear Editor, The piRNA pathway silences transposons in animal gonads. Animals lacking piRNA pathway components often show transposon activation in the germline and compromised fertility [1]. In Drosophila germ cells,...
Foundation item:The National Basic Research Program of China(grant numbers 2010CB126306&2012CB944504);the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars of NSFC(grant number 31222052);the FEBL grant 2011FBZ23