The expansion of animal microRNA families revisited

Life

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 905-920

  Hertel, Jana ^a   Stadler, Peter F ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dollo parsimony; Gene loss; Genome duplication; Innovation; Metazoa; MicroRNA

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ENOPLEA; EUKARYOTA; EUTHERIA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; RHABDITOIDEA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84924658050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20751729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/life5010905     Document Type: Article

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