The conserved miR-51 microRNA family is redundantly required for embryonic development and pharynx attachment in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 897-905

  Robert Shaw, W ^a,b   Armisen, Javier ^a,b   Lehrbach, Nicolas J ^a,b   Miska, Eric A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CDH3 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 51; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CDH 3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CDH-3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUTH; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLE; PHARYNX; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DERMIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADHERINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DERMIS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHARYNX; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 77956179557     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.117515     Document Type: Article

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