Large-Scale Sequencing Reveals 21U-RNAs and Additional MicroRNAs and Endogenous siRNAs in C. elegans

Cell

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1193-1207

  Ruby, J Graham ^a,b   Jan, Calvin ^a,b   Player, Christopher ^a   Axtell, Michael J ^a   Lee, William ^b   Nusbaum, Chad ^b   Ge, Hui ^a   Bartel, David P ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME 4; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA RERIO; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 33845436047     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.10.040     Document Type: Article

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