Small noncoding RNAs in the germline

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Saxe, Jonathan P ^a   Lin, Haifan ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; MALE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELLS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84859213114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a002717     Document Type: Review

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