Insect-specific microRNA involved in the development of the silkworm Bombyx mori

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Yong ^a   Zhou, Xue ^b   Ge, Xie ^a   Jiang, Jianhao ^a   Li, Muwang ^c   Jia, Shihai ^a   Yang, Xiaonan ^a   Kan, Yunchao ^d   Miao, Xuexia ^a   Zhao, Guoping ^a   Li, Fei ^b   Huang, Yongping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d NANYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; METAMORPHOSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SILKWORM; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BOMBYX; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES; GENOME; INSECTS; MICRORNAS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61849171653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004677     Document Type: Article

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