Origins and evolution of microRNA genes in Drosophila species

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 180-189

  Nozawa, Masafumi ^a   Miura, Sayaka ^a   Nei, Masatoshi ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth and death evolution; Gene duplication; Gene regulation; Multigene family; Noncoding RNA; Substitution rate

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MICRORNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, INSECT; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77958462907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evq009     Document Type: Article

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