Circular RNA is expressed across the eukaryotic tree of life

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Peter L ^a,b   Bao, Yun ^c,d   Yee, Muh Ching ^c,d   Barrett, Steven P ^a   Hogan, Gregory J ^a   Olsen, Mari N ^a   Dinneny, José R ^c,d   Brown, Patrick O ^a   Salzman, Julia ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXONUCLEASE; RNA; RNA ISOFORM;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TREE OF LIFE;

EID: 84897568165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090859     Document Type: Article

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