MicroRNA enrichment among short 'ultraconserved' sequences in insects

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Tran, T ^a   Havlak, P ^a   Miller, J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; HONEYBEE; INSECT GENETICS; METAZOON; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ANIMAL; BEE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

APOIDEA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; METAZOA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME, INSECT; GENOMICS; MICRORNAS;

EID: 33646929269     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl173     Document Type: Article

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