The Caenorhabditis elegans intermediate-size transcriptome shows high degree of stage-specific expression

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5203-5214

  Wang, Yunfei ^a,b   Chen, Jingjing ^a,b   Wei, Guifeng ^a,b   He, Housheng ^a,c   Zhu, Xiaopeng ^a   Xiao, Tengfei ^a,b   Yuan, Jiao ^a,b   Dong, Bo ^a,b   He, Shunmin ^a,d   Skogerbø, Geir ^a   Chen, Runsheng ^a,e,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, HELMINTH; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 79960252309     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr102     Document Type: Article

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