MicroRNAs and their roles in developmental canalization

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 27, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-6

  Posadas, Diana M ^a   Carthew, Richard W ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; PROTEOME;

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL CANALIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PROTEOME;

EID: 84899871935     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2014.03.005     Document Type: Review

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