Many Families of C. elegans MicroRNAs Are Not Essential for Development or Viability

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 367-373

  Alvarez Saavedra, Ezequiel ^a   Horvitz, H Robert ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

DEV_BIO; RNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA MICROARRAY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHENOTYPE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 76749134307     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.12.051     Document Type: Article

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