MicroRNAs in Drosophila: The magic wand to enter the Chamber of Secrets?

Biochimie

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1211-1220

  Jaubert, Stéphanie ^a   Mereau, Agnès ^b   Antoniewski, Christophe ^c   Tagu, Denis ^a  

^a AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Gene silencing; Insect; miRNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

APOPTOSIS; BIOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TISSUE GROWTH;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DROSOPHILA; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE SILENCING; HOMEOSTASIS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34848869341     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: 61831638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2007.05.012     Document Type: Review

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