Control of developmental timing by microRNAs and their targets

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 18, Issue , 2002, Pages 495-513

  Pasquinelli, Amy E ^a   Ruvkun, Gary ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Let 7; Lin 4; miRNAs; stRNAs

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA;

MICRORNA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICRORNAS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036437372     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.18.012502.105832     Document Type: Review

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