Identification of conserved and novel microRNAs in Manduca sexta and their possible roles in the expression regulation of immunity-related genes

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-22

  Zhang, Xiufeng ^a   Zheng, Yun ^b   Jagadeeswaran, Guru ^a   Ren, Ren ^c   Sunkar, Ramanjulu ^a   Jiang, Haobo ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Illumina sequencing; Insect immunity; Lepidoptera; Posttranscriptional regulation; Target site prediction

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MICRORNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FAT BODY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ILLUMINA SEQUENCING; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT IMMUNITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TARGET SITE PREDICTION;

ILLUMINA SEQUENCING; INSECT IMMUNITY; LEPIDOPTERA; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION; TARGET SITE PREDICTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FAT BODY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMOCYTES; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INSECT PROTEINS; MANDUCA; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84893902381     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2014.01.008     Document Type: Article

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