Ancient animal microRNAs and the evolution of tissue identity

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7284, 2010, Pages 1084-1088

  Christodoulou, Foteini ^a   Raible, Florian ^a,c   Tomer, Raju ^a   Simakov, Oleg ^a   Trachana, Kalliopi ^a   Klaus, Sebastian ^a,d   Snyman, Heidi ^a   Hannon, Gregory J ^b   Bork, Peer ^a   Arendt, Detlev ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c Vienna Biocenter   (Austria)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

BODY SHAPE; ECHINODERM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METAZOAN; POLYCHAETE; POLYP;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; INTESTINE; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUTH; MUSCLE; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PLATYNEREIS DUMERILII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA ANEMONE; SEA URCHIN;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; BRAIN; CILIA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYCHAETA; SEA ANEMONES; SEA URCHINS;

ACTINIARIA; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; BILATERIA; CAPITELLA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINOIDEA; NEMATOSTELLA; PLATYNEREIS DUMERILII; PROTOSTOMIA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS;

EID: 77649193420     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08744     Document Type: Article

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