Computational prediction of amphioxus microRNA genes and their targets

Gene

Volumn 428, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 41-46

  Luo, Yan ^a   Zhang, Shicui ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Branchiostoma; Lancelet; MicroRNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

AMPHIOXUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; CHORDATA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; INTRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORDATA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES; GENOME; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; DEUTEROSTOMIA; INVERTEBRATA; PROTOSTOMIA;

EID: 56949083333     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.09.022     Document Type: Article

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