Evolutionary conservation of microRNA regulatory circuits: An examination of microRNA gene complexity and conserved microRNA-target interactions through metazoan phylogeny

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 209-218

  Lee, Chung Tien ^a   Risom, Tyler ^a   Strauss, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

COMPLEX FORMATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE NUMBER; GENOTYPE; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 34248638447     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.2006.0545     Document Type: Review

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