n.

the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking)

"there was a shocked silence"; "he gestured for silence"

the absence of sound

"he needed silence in order to sleep"

同義詞：quiet

a refusal to speak when expected

"his silence about my contribution was surprising"

同義詞：muteness

the trait of keeping things secret

同義詞：secrecysecretiveness

Silencing of microRNAs in vivo with 'antagomirs'.
Transcriptional silencing and longevity protein Sir2 is an NAD-dependent histone deacetylase.
Regulation of Heterochromatic Silencing and Histone H3 Lysine-9 Methylation by RNAi
Suppression of gene silencing: a general strategy used by diverse DNA and RNA viruses of plants.
Mechanisms of disease: Gene silencing in cancer in association with promoter hypermethylation
Short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) induce sequence-specific silencing in mammalian cells
Transmission Dynamics of Heritable Silencing Induced by Double-Stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
A species of small antisense RNA in posttranscriptional gene silencing in plants.
An RNA-directed nuclease mediates post-transcriptional gene silencing in Drosophila cells.
Arabidopsis SGS2 and SGS3 Genes Are Required for Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing and Natural Virus Resistance