Conserved generation of short products at piRNA loci

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Berninger, Philipp ^a,b   Jaskiewicz, Lukasz ^a   Khorshid, Mohsen ^a   Zavolan, Mihaela ^a  

^a SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MILI PROTEIN; MIWI PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLATYPUS; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; RAT; RETROPOSON; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA METHYLATION; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TESTIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA;

ANIMALS; MALE; MICE; PLATYPUS; RATS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 78651518920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-46     Document Type: Article

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