MicroRNAs and their regulatory roles in animals and plants

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 279-289

  Zhang, Baohong ^a,b   Wang, Qinglian ^b   Pan, Xiaoping ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HENAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

ADENYLATION; ANIMAL GENETICS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PLANTS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33845601726     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.20869     Document Type: Short Survey

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