Advances in Genetics, Volume 52 (Advances in Genetics)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: November 16, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780120176526
First sentence: RNA interference, or RNAi, is a gene-silencing mechanism originally described in plants (where it was known as post-transcriptional gene silencing, or PTGS), C. elegans and Drosophila (reviewed in Bernstein et al., 2001; Carmell et al., 2002).