Expression of the 22 nucleotide let-7 heterochronic RNA throughout the Metazoa: A role in life history evolution?

Evolution and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 372-378

  Pasquinelli, Amy E ^a   McCoy, Adam ^b   Jiménez, Eva ^c   Saló, Emili ^c   Ruvkun, Gary ^d   Martindale, Mark Q ^e   Baguñà, Jaume ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HELMINTH RNA; LET 7 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; LET-7 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; RNA;

EVOLUTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METAZOAN; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INVERTEBRATES; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PHYLOGENY; RNA; RNA, HELMINTH;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CNIDARIA; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; NEMERTEA; PLATYHELMINTHES; VERMES;

EID: 0042814908     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03044.x     Document Type: Article

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