MicroRNAs from the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea: A model system for stem cell biology

RNA

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1640-1649

  Palakodeti, Dasaradhi ^a   Smielewska, Magda ^a   Graveley, Brenton R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

MicroRNA; Planarians; Schmidtea mediterranea; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSLATION; STEM CELL; TURBELLARIA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; CELL LINEAGE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANARIANS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STEM CELLS;

METAZOA; PLANARIA; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 33748133008     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.117206     Document Type: Article

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