A transgenic resource for conditional competitive inhibition of conserved Drosophila microRNAs

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Fulga, Tudor A ^a,c   McNeill, Elizabeth M ^a   Binari, Richard ^a,b   Yelick, Julia ^a   Blanche, Alexandra ^a   Booker, Matthew ^a   Steinkraus, Bruno R ^c   Schnall Levin, Michael ^a   Zhao, Yong ^a   Deluca, Todd ^a   Bejarano, Fernando ^d   Han, Zhe ^e   Lai, Eric C ^d   Wall, Dennis P ^a,f   Perrimon, Norbert ^a,b   Van Vactor, David ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

FLY; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; FLIGHT MUSCLE; IN VIVO STUDY; INSECT GENETICS; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSGENIC DROSOPHILA; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; MALE; MICRORNAS; MUSCLES;

EID: 84931316161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8279     Document Type: Article

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