The relationship between the evolution of microRNA targets and the length of their UTRs

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 431-

  Cheng, Chao ^a   Bhardwaj, Nitin ^a   Gerstein, Mark ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 70350469040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-431     Document Type: Article

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