supported by the grants from the National Key R&D Program of China(Nos.2022YFA1303301 and 2021YFA1100201);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB0570000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31970607 and 31470781 to L.W.,No.32200696 to H.Z.);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2021M700146 to H.Z.);the Heye Scholarship(to X.L.).
PIWI-interacting RNAs(piRNAs),which associate with PIWI clade Argonaute proteins to form piRNA-induced silencing complexes(piRISCs)in germline cells,are responsible for maintaining genomic integrity and reproductive f...
supported by the Science&Technology Innovation Project of Laoshan Laboratory(LSKJ202203202);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31922013,32270539);Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2020JQ13);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(202141004);the Researchers Supporting Project(RSP2024R7)King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
Sexual reproduction first appeared in unicellular protists and has continued to be an essential biological process in almost all eukaryotes.Ciliated protists, which contain both germline and somatic genomes within a s...