The small RNA world

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 116, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 4689-4693

  Finnegan, E Jean ^a   Matzke, Marjori A ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MICRORNAS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0346121436     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00838     Document Type: Article

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