Functional Genomic Analysis of the let-7 Regulatory Network in Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Hunter, Shaun E ^a   Finnegan, Emily F ^a   Zisoulis, Dimitrios G ^a   Lovci, Michael T ^a,b   Melnik Martinez, Katya V ^a   Yeo, Gene W ^a,b   Pasquinelli, Amy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MICRORNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; LET 7 GENE; NONHUMAN; OPT 2 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PRMT 1 GENE; T27D12.1 GENE; VULVA;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84876005449     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003353     Document Type: Article

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