Conservation and divergence of plant microRNA genes

Plant Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 243-259

  Zhang, Baohong ^a   Pan, Xiaoping ^a   Cannon, Charles H ^a   Cobb, George P ^a   Anderson, Todd A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster; EST; Evolution; MicroRNA; Origin; plant

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; RNA; SIGNALING;

CLUSTER; EVOLUTION; MICRORNA; ORIGIN;

GENES;

MICRORNA; PLANT RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENOTYPE; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; RNA, PLANT; VARIATION (GENETICS);

GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS; PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRYOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 33646830110     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2006.02697.x     Document Type: Article

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