Most Caenorhabditis elegans microRNAs are individually not essential for development or viability

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2395-2403

  Miska, Eric A ^a,d   Alvarez Saavedra, Ezequiel ^a   Abbott, Allison L ^b,e   Lau, Nelson C ^c,f   Hellman, Andrew B ^a,g   McGonagle, Shannon M ^a,h   Bartel, David P ^a,c   Ambros, Victor R ^b   Horvitz, H Robert ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e Marquette University   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; HELMINTH RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL VIABILITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HELMINTH; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA, HELMINTH; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 37749036293     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030215     Document Type: Article

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