Identification and characterization of small non-coding RNAs from Chinese fir by high throughput sequencing

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wan, Li Chuan ^a   Wang, Feng ^a,b   Guo, Xiangqian ^c   Lu, Shanfa ^d   Qiu, Zongbo ^a   Zhao, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Zhang, Haiyan ^a   Lin, Jinxing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANT DEVELOPMENT   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese fir; Cunninghamia lanceolata; miRNA; rasiRNA; tasiRNA

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA; CUNNINGHAMIA LANCEOLATA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CHINESE FIR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CUNNINGHAMIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84864950928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-12-146     Document Type: Article

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