Bacterial small RNA regulators: Versatile roles and rapidly evolving variations

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Gottesman, Susan ^a   Storz, Gisela ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BACTERIUM; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; BASE PAIRING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84863924309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a003798     Document Type: Article

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