Publications

Ghildiyal M., Seitz H., Horwich M.D., Li C., Du T., Lee S., Xu J., Kittler E.L., Zapp M.L., Weng Z., Zamore P.D.  Endogenous siRNAs Derived from Transposons and mRNAs in Drosophila Somatic Cells.
Science, 320(5879): 1077-81, May 2008

Li C.*, Vagin VV.*, Lee S.*, Xu J.*, Ma S., Xi H., Seitz H., Horwich MD., Syrzycka M., Honda BM., Kittler EL., Zapp ML., Klattenhoff C., Schulz N., Theurkauf WE., Weng Z., Zamore PD. Collapse of germline piRNAs in the absence of Argonaute3 reveals somatic piRNAs in flies.    
Cell, 137(3): 509-521, April 2009

Klattenhoff C., Xi H., Li C., Lee S., Xu J., Khurana JS., Zhang F., Schultz N., Koppetsch BS., Nowosielska A., Seitz H., Zamore PD., Weng Z., Theurkauf WE. The Drosophila HP1 homologue Rhino is required for transposon silencing and piRNA production by dual strand clusters
Cell, 138(6): 1137-1149, September 2009

Ghildiyal M.*, Xu J.*, Seitz H., Weng Z., Zamore PD.  Sorting of Drosophila small silencing RNAs partitions microRNA* strands into the RNA interference pathway.
RNA, 16(1): 43-56, January 2010

Ameres SL., Horwich MD., Hung J., Xu J., Ghildiyal M., Weng Z., Zamore PD. Target RNA-directed trimming and tailing of small silencing RNAs.
Science. 328(5985): 1534-9, June 2010

Khurana JS., Xu J., Weng Z. and Theurkauf WE. Distinct functions for the Drosophila piRNA pathway in genome maintenance and telomere protection
Plos Genetics 6(12): e1001246, November 2010

Ameres SL., Hung J., Xu J., Weng Z., and Zamore PD. Target RNA-Directed Tailing and Trimming Purifies the Sorting of Endo-siRNAs Between the Two Drosophila Argonaute Proteins
RNA (published advanced on line doi:10.1261/rna.2498411), November 2010

Khurana JS., Wang J., Xu J., Nowosielska A., Li C., Zamore PD., Weng Z., and Theurkauf WE. Adaptation to transposon invasion in Drosophila melanogaster.
Cell (submitted), July 2011