Non-coding RNA: What is functional and what is junk?

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Palazzo, Alexander F ^a   Lee, Eliza S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genome biology; Junk DNA; Junk RNA; Non coding RNA

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84923194044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00002     Document Type: Article

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