Meaning of piwi | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A class of genes originally identified as encoding regulatory proteins responsible for maintaining incomplete differentiation in stem cells and maintaining the stability of cell division rates in germline cells.
   attributive
2. a small Australian magpie lark, also known as a Murray magpie.

Examples

“However, piwi and tudor-domain containing genes are absent from flukes and tapeworms and no true vasa orthologue has been identified in schistosomes.”

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