Computational identification of DrosophilamicroRNA genes

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Lai, Eric C ^a   Tomancak, Pavel ^a   Williams, Robert W ^a   Rubin, Gerald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Direct Cloning; Mature miRNA Sequence; miRNA Candidate; miRNA Gene

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVALUATION; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 0038825783     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-7-r42     Document Type: Article

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