Discovering conserved insect microRNAs from expressed sequence tags

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1763-1769

  Jia, Qidong ^a   Lin, Kejian ^b   Liang, Jingdong ^a   Yu, Lun ^a   Li, Fei ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Computational identification; EST; Insect; MicroRNA; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA;

CROP PEST; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; RNA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETICS; INSECT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; INSECTS; MICRORNAS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA;

EID: 77958460848     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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