The fate of miRNA* strand through evolutionary analysis: Implication for degradation as merely carrier strand or potential regulatory molecule?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Guo, Li ^a   Lu, Zuhong ^a,b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Southeast University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 77955328547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011387     Document Type: Article

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