Short silencing RNA: The dark matter of genetics?

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2006, Pages 13-20

  Baulcombe, D C ^a  

^a SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH RNA; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GUIDE RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; EPIGENETICS; GENE SILENCING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 34250661903     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2006.71.052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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