The phylogenetic utility and functional constraint of microRNA flanking sequences

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1803, 2015, Pages

  Kenny, Nathan J ^a   Sin, Yung Wa ^a,d   Hayward, Alexander ^b,e   Paps, Jordi ^c   Chu, Ka Hou ^a   Hui, Jerome H L ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evolution; Flanking sequences; MicroRNA; Non coding RNA; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GENE EXPRESSION; GENERATION TIME; GENOME; NEMATODE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; RNA; TAXONOMY;

DROSOPHILIDAE; NEMATODA; PRIMATES; RHABDITIDA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

MICRORNA;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILIDAE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILIDAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 84923197991     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2983     Document Type: Article

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