Interacting endogenous and exogenous RNAi pathways in Caenorhabditis elegans

RNA

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 589-597

  Lee, Rosalind C ^a   Hammell, Christopher M ^a   Ambros, Victor ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; microRNA; Noncoding RNA; RdRp; RNAi; siRNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE SILENCING; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33645464445     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2231506     Document Type: Article

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