Non-coding RNA gene families in the genomes of anopheline mosquitoes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dritsou, Vicky ^a   Deligianni, Elena ^b   Dialynas, Emmanuel ^b   Allen, James ^d   Poulakakis, Nikos ^c   Louis, Christos ^a,b,c   Lawson, Dan ^d   Topalis, Pantelis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Genome evolution; MicroRNA; NcRNA; Ribosomal genes; Small nuclear RNA; Small nucleolar RNA; TRNA; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; MICRORNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S; RNA 28S; RNA 5.8S; RNA 5S; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SPACER DNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INSECT GENOME; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE;

EID: 84928739920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1038     Document Type: Article

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