Diversity of homology-dependent gene silencing strategies in fungi

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Quelling: transient inactivation of gene expression in Neurospora crassa by transformation with homologous sequences

1992 • 773 citations

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1996 • 373 citations

Eukaryotic DNA methylation as an evolutionary device

1999 • 328 citations

RNA-Mediated RNA Degradation and Chalcone Synthase A Silencing in Petunia

1997 • 308 citations

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1997 • 307 citations

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1996 • 284 citations

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1999 • 252 citations

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1999 • 242 citations

Arabidopsis Mutants Impaired in Cosuppression

1998 • 238 citations

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1998 • 213 citations

Trichostatin A causes selective loss of DNA methylation in Neurospora

1998 • 212 citations

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1997 • 202 citations

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1994 • 193 citations

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1998 • 190 citations

An Inverted Repeat Triggers Cytosine Methylation of Identical Sequences in Arabidopsis

1999 • 187 citations

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1997 • 180 citations

Gene inactivation triggered by recognition between DNA repeats

1994 • 144 citations

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1992 • 141 citations

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1997 • 134 citations

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1992 • 133 citations

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1996 • 132 citations

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1993 • 120 citations

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1993 • 110 citations

The fission yeast gene pmt1⁺encodes a DNA methyltransferase homologue

1995 • 106 citations

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1999 • 97 citations

DNA Methylation Associated with Repeat-Induced Point Mutation inNeurospora crassa

1995 • 97 citations

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1999 • 93 citations

Histone H1 Is Dispensable for Methylation-Associated Gene Silencing in Ascobolus immersusand Essential for Long Life Span

2000 • 91 citations

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1997 • 73 citations

The Neurospora transposon Tad is sensitive to repeat-induced point mutation (RIP).

1994 • 66 citations

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1996 • 64 citations

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1994 • 56 citations

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1995 • 42 citations

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1996 • 35 citations

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1999 • 24 citations

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1994 • 17 citations

Masc2, a C5-DNA-Methyltransferase from Ascobolus immersus with Similarity to Methyltransferases of Higher Organisms

1997 • 16 citations

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1998 • 5 citations