title: Germlines: Argonautes go full cycle.
abstract: Specific Argonaute proteins and their small RNA targets are important in animal germline development. Although plants strictly do not have germlines and form their gametes from gametophytes, there is now evidence that reproductive Argonautes play equally important roles in plants.
authors.affiliation: University of Oxford, Department of Plant Sciences, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK. robert.grant-downton@plants.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grant-Downton
authors.forename: Hugh
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dickinson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005854:Germ Cells / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism; D059828:Plant Cells; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins