Conifers have a unique small RNA silencing signature

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1508-1515

  Dolgosheina, Elena V ^a   Morin, Ryan D ^b   Aksay, Gozde ^c   Sahinalp, S Cenk ^a   Magrini, Vincent ^d   Mardis, Elaine R ^d   Mattsson, Jim ^a   Unrau, Peter J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dicer (DCL); Gymnosperms; Plant evolution; RNA silencing; Small RNA processing

Indexed keywords

DICER; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CONIFER; DNA METHYLATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONIFEROPHYTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; CONIFEROPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PINUS CONTORTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 47949086531     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1052008     Document Type: Article

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