Systematic discovery and characterization of fly microRNAs using 12 Drosophila genomes

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1865-1879

  Stark, Alexander ^a,b   Kheradpour, Pouya ^b   Parts, Leopold ^b,d,e   Brennecke, Julius ^c   Hodges, Emily ^c   Hannon, Gregory J ^c   Kellis, Manolis ^a,b  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; HOX GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, INSECT; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 37249025294     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6593807     Document Type: Article

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