The heterochronic genes lin-28a and lin-28b play an essential and evolutionarily conserved role in early zebrafish development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Ouchi, Yasuo ^a   Yamamoto, Jyunya ^a   Iwamoto, Takashi ^a  

^a CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LET 7; LIN 4; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 125B; MICRORNA 430; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LIN-28 PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; MORPHOLINO OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME; LIN 28A GENE; LIN 28B GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UPREGULATION; ZEBRA FISH; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYOLOGY; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOLINOS; NEURONS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84895537409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088086     Document Type: Article

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