A diverse and evolutionarily fluid set of microRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana

Genes and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 3407-3425

  Rajagopalan, Ramya ^a   Vaucheret, Hervé ^a,b   Trejo, Jerry ^a   Bartel, David P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

Author keywords

High throughput sequencing; miRNA; Noncoding RNA; RNA silencing; siRNA; tasiRNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; ORTHOLOGY; PLANT EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 33845688601     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1476406     Document Type: Article

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