Human microRNAs originated from two periods at accelerated rates in mammalian evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 613-626

  Iwama, Hisakazu ^a   Kato, Kiyohito ^a   Imachi, Hitomi ^a   Murao, Koji ^a   Masaki, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

gene gain; gene loss; microRNA; regulatory network

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

APE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LAURASIATHERIA; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PLATYPUS; THERIAN;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EID: 84873607017     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss262     Document Type: Article

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