Identification and characterization of microRNAs in white and brown alpaca skin

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tian, Xue ^a   Jiang, Junbing ^a   Fan, Ruiwen ^a   Wang, Haidong ^a   Meng, Xiaolin ^a   He, Xiaoyan ^a   He, Junping ^a   Li, Hongquan ^a   Geng, Jianjun ^a   Yu, Xiuju ^a   Song, Yunfei ^a   Zhang, Danli ^a   Yao, Jianbo ^a,b   Smith, George W ^a,c   Dong, Changsheng ^a  

^a SHANXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpaca; Coat color; Deep sequencing; MicroRNAs; Skin

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRAIT; MELANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALIA; LAMA PACOS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMELIDS, NEW WORLD; GENE LIBRARY; MICRORNAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SKIN;

EID: 84867420925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-555     Document Type: Article

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