Unique small RNA signatures uncovered in the tammar wallaby genome

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lindsay, James ^a,b   Carone, Dawn M ^a,c   Brown, Judy ^a   Hall, Laura ^a   Qureshi, Sohaib ^a   Mitchell, Sarah E ^a   Jannetty, Nicholas ^a   Hannon, Greg ^d   Renfree, Marilyn ^e,f   Pask, Andrew ^a   O'Neill, Michael ^a   O'Neill, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Kangaroo Genomics ^*  (United States)

^e Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Kangaroo Genomics   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE REPEAT SHORT INTERACTING RNA; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC REGULATION; MALE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PREDICTION; RETROPOSON; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAMMAR WALLABY; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MACROPODIDAE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EUKARYOTA; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 84867441765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-559     Document Type: Article

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