Identification of phylogenetically conserved microRNA cis -regulatory elements across 12 Drosophila species

Bioinformatics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-171

  Wang, Xiaowo ^a   Gu, Jin ^a   Zhang, Michael Q ^a,b   Li, Yanda ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC REGULATION; INTERNET; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFAC DATABASE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38349118310     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm572     Document Type: Article

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