Deep sequencing identifies new and regulated microRNAs in Schmidtea mediterranea

RNA

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1483-1491

  Lu, Yi Chien ^a   Smielewska, Magda ^a   Palakodeti, Dasaradhi ^a   Lovci, Michael T ^b   Aigner, Stefan ^c   Yeo, Gene W ^b   Graveley, Brenton R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Deep sequencing; microRNAs; Planarians; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GENE LOCUS; HOMEOSTASIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REGENERATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURBELLARIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GAMMA RAYS; GENOME, HELMINTH; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANARIANS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REGENERATION; RNA, HELMINTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; PLANARIA; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 67650998880     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1702009     Document Type: Article

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