Correlation between sequence conservation and structural thermodynamics of microRNA precursors from human, mouse, and chicken genomes

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Ni, Ming ^a,b   Shu, Wenjie ^b   Bo, Xiaochen ^b   Wang, Shengqi ^b   Li, Songgang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF RADIATION MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; POULTRY; RNA; RODENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

MICRORNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77958481575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-329     Document Type: Article

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