MicroRNAs in Amoebozoa: Deep sequencing of the small RNA population in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum reveals developmentally regulated microRNAs

RNA

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1771-1782

  Avesson, Lotta ^a,e   Reimegård, Johan ^b,d   Wagner, E Gerhart H ^b,c   Söderbom, Fredrik ^a,b,c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SCIENCE FOR LIFE LABORATORY   (Sweden)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Development; Dictyostelium discoideum; High throughput sequencing; MicroRNA; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

DICER; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; MICRORNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROPOSON; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA FOLDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; UPREGULATION;

AMOEBOZOA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRANSFECTION; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

AMOEBA (GENUS); AMOEBOZOA; ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84866631065     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.033175.112     Document Type: Article

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