Widespread roles of microRNAs during zebrafish development and beyond

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-65

  Mishima, Yuichiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Gene expression; MicroRNA; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN LET 7; PROTEIN LIN 4; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC CODE; HOMEOSTASIS; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TIME FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DANIO RERIO; METAZOA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855976362     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2011.01306.x     Document Type: Review

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