Do miRNAs have a deep evolutionary history?

BioEssays

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 857-866

  Tarver, James E ^a,b   Donoghue, Philip C J ^a   Peterson, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal; Eukaryote; MicroRNA evolution; Plant; Protist

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; EXPORTIN 5; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALGA; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CYTOPLASM; ECTOCARPUS SILICULOSUS; EUKARYOTE; GENE PRODUCT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GREEN ALGA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTIST; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, PROTOZOAN;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; ECTOCARPUS; EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 84866267741     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201200055     Document Type: Article

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