Treasure hunt in an amoeba: Non-coding RNAs in Dictyostelium discoideum

Current Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 141-159

  Hinas, Andrea ^a   Söderbom, Fredrik ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Dictyostelium discoideum; Non coding RNA; Protist; RNAi; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE MRP; RIBONUCLEASE P; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BIOINFORMATICS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EXPERIMENTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA ISOLATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; PROTISTA;

EID: 33847197489     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-006-0112-z     Document Type: Review

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