MicroRNA-dependent metamorphosis in hemimetabolan insects

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 51, 2009, Pages 21678-21682

  Gomez Orte, Eva ^a   Belles, Xavier ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blattella; Dicer; MicroRNAs

Indexed keywords

DICER 1 RIBONUCLEASE; ECDYSTEROID; JUVENILE HORMONE; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLATTA GERMANICA; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; INSECT; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; INSECTS; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA HELICASES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

BLATTELLA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 76049129954     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907391106     Document Type: Article

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