Comparative RNA-Seq analysis reveals pervasive tissue-specific alternative polyadenylation in Caenorhabditis elegans intestine and muscles

BMC Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Blazie, Stephen M ^a   Babb, Cody ^a   Wilky, Henry ^a   Rawls, Alan ^a   Park, Jin G ^a   Mangone, Marco ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3'UTR; Elegans; miRNAs; mRNA tagging; PAT Seq; Promoter; RNA Seq; Tissue specific mRNA; Transcription; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; PHARYNX; POLYADENYLATION; PROCEDURES; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTESTINES; MICRORNAS; MUSCLES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHARYNX; POLY A; POLYADENYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84924337097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-015-0116-6     Document Type: Article

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