Global coevolution of human micrornas and their target genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1237-1247

  Barbash, Shahar ^a   Shifman, Sagiv ^a   Soreq, Hermona ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain; Coevolution; Human evolution; MiRNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 132; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHIMPANZEE; COEVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VERTEBRATE;

BRAIN; COEVOLUTION; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MIRNA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEURONS; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899513644     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu090     Document Type: Article

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