A comparative genome-wide study of ncRNAs in trypanosomatids

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Doniger, Tirza ^a   Katz, Rodolfo ^a   Wachtel, Chaim ^a   Michaeli, Shulamit ^a   Unger, Ron ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; ANIMAL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 78049366130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-615     Document Type: Article

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