MicroRNA Processing: Battle of the Bulge

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Meyers, Blake C ^a   Simon, Stacey A ^a   Zhai, Jixian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; RNA PROCESSING; SHORT SURVEY;

MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

EID: 74549125843     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.12.008     Document Type: Short Survey

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