Cloning and expression profiling of testis-expressed piRNA-like RNAs

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1693-1702

  Ro, Seungil ^a   Park, Chanjae ^a   Song, Rui ^a   Nguyen, Dan ^a   Jin, Jingling ^a   Sanders, Kenton M ^a   Mccarrey, John R ^b   Yan, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloning; Germ cells; PIWI interacting RNAs; Small noncoding RNAs; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; INTRON; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 34748824329     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.640307     Document Type: Article

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