Conservation and losses of non-coding RNAs in avian genomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Gardner, Paul P ^a   Fasold, Mario ^b,c   Burge, Sarah W ^d   Ninova, Maria ^e   Hertel, Jana ^b   Kehr, Stephanie ^b   Steeves, Tammy E ^a   Griffiths Jones, Sam ^e   Stadler, Peter F ^{b,f,g,h,i,j,k}  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b And Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics ^*  (Germany)

^c ecSeq Bioinformatics   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^j SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOSS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MICROCHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHICKEN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PSEUDOGENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PSEUDOGENES; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84926434189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121797     Document Type: Article

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