A comparative roadmap of PIWI-interacting RNAs across seven species reveals insights into de novo piRNA-precursor formation in mammals

Affiliations

• ¹ National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ² National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, US Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
• ³ National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Biophysics Graduate Program, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK; Wellcome/CRUK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK.
• ⁵ Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Center for RNA Science and Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
• ⁶ Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; Bioinformatics Group, Division of Molecular Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
• ⁷ National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, US Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN, USA; TriLab Bioinformatics Group, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
• ⁸ Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
• ⁹ National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; TriLab Bioinformatics Group, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
• ¹⁰ Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ¹¹ National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].