Select microRNAs are essential for early development in the sea urchin

Developmental Biology

Volumn 362, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 104-113

  Song, Jia L ^a,d   Stoeckius, Marlon ^c   Maaskola, Jonas ^c   Friedländer, Marc ^c,e   Stepicheva, Nadezda ^d   Juliano, Celina ^a,f   Lebedeva, Svetlana ^c   Thompson, William ^b   Rajewsky, Nikolaus ^c   Wessel, Gary M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^e Center for Genomic Regulation   (Spain)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; MicroRNA; Sea urchin

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEA URCHIN; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ECHINOIDEA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

EID: 84855437594     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.11.015     Document Type: Article

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