The microRNAs of Caenorhabditis elegans

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 991-1008

  Lim, Lee P ^a,b,c   Lau, Nelson C ^a,b   Weinstein, Earl G ^a,b   Abdelhakim, Aliaa ^a,b   Yekta, Soraya ^a,b   Rhoades, Matthew W ^a,b   Burge, Christopher B ^a   Bartel, David P ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ROSETTA INPHARMATICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational gene identification; Dicer; miRNA; Noncoding RNA

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA STRAND; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, HELMINTH; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037447334     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1074403     Document Type: Article

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