RNA sequencing reveals small RNAs differentially expressed between incipient Japanese threespine sticklebacks

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kitano, Jun ^a,b   Yoshida, Kohta ^a   Suzuki, Yutaka ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ecology; miRNA; piRNA; Speciation; Stickleback; Variation

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENE EXPRESSION; JAPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; MICRORNAS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SMEGMAMORPHA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; SPINACHIA SPINACHIA;

EID: 84875527393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-214     Document Type: Article

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