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Germline Specificity

(Laski, Rio et al. 1986; Rio 1990; Siebel and Rio 1990; Moerman, Kiff et al. 1991; Dupuy, Fritz et al. 2001; Pelisson, Mejlumian et al. 2002; Timakov, Liu et al. 2002; Carlson, Dupuy et al. 2003; Kogan, Tulin et al. 2003; Buglia and Ferraro 2004; Kalmykova, Klenov et al. 2005; Begin and Schoen 2006; Chang, Anway et al. 2006; Girard, Sachidanandam et al. 2006; Megosh, Cox et al. 2006; Savitsky, Kwon et al. 2006; Vagin, Sigova et al. 2006; Watanabe, Takeda et al. 2006; Murchison, Stein et al. 2007; O'Donnell and Boeke 2007; Serbus and Sullivan 2007; Simmons, Niemi et al. 2007; Takeda, Keng et al. 2007; Jensen, Stuart et al. 2008; Johnson 2008; Khurana and Theurkauf 2008; Klattenhoff and Theurkauf 2008; Koga, Cheah et al. 2008; Siomi, Saito et al. 2008; Takeda, Izsvak et al. 2008; Abarrategui and Krangel 2009; Belinco, Diprima et al. 2009; Byrd and Kimble 2009; Gilbert, Maxfield et al. 2009; Keng, Ryan et al. 2009; Shpiz and Kalmykova 2009; Sun and Cline 2009; Thorp, Chapman et al. 2009; Fukai, Umehara et al. 2010; Khurana and Theurkauf 2010; Patil and Kai 2010; Siomi, Miyoshi et al. 2010; Tang 2010; Fast, Toomey et al. 2011)

 

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