A novel class of tRNA-derived small RNAs extremely enriched in mature mouse sperm

Cell Research

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1609-1612

  Peng, Hongying ^a   Shi, Junchao ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Zhang, He ^a   Liao, Shangying ^a   Li, Wei ^a,b   Lei, Li ^a,b   Han, Chunsheng ^a   Ning, Lina ^a   Cao, Yujing ^a   Zhou, Qi ^a   Chen, Qi ^a   Duan, Enkui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LETTER; MALE; MOUSE; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MALE; MICE; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; RNA, TRANSFER; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84868537584     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: 17487838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cr.2012.141     Document Type: Letter

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