Small RNAs are on the move

Nature

Volumn 467, Issue 7314, 2010, Pages 415-419

  Chitwood, Daniel H ^a   Timmermans, Marja C P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

CYTOGENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; RNA; VASCULAR PLANT;

BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; EPIGENETICS; GENE SILENCING; INHERITANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; VASCULARIZATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PLANT; PLANT CELL; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALIA;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MICRORNAS; MOVEMENT; PLANT CELLS; PLANTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 77957153139     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09351     Document Type: Review

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