The evolution and diversification of Dicers in plants

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2442-2450

  Margis, Rogerio ^a,b   Fusaro, Adriana F ^a   Smith, Neil A ^a   Curtin, Shaun J ^a   Watson, John M ^a   Finnegan, E Jean ^a   Waterhouse, Peter M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dicer; Evolution; RNAi

Indexed keywords

DICER; ENZYME; MICRORNA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GREEN ALGA; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; ORYZA SATIVA; POPULUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; CHLOROPHYTA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 33646082498     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.03.072     Document Type: Article

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