Regulatory RNAs discovered in unexpected places

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 671-686

  Pek, Jun Wei ^a   Okamura, Katsutomo ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR INTRONIC RNA; CIRCULAR RNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; RNA; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL CAJAL BODY ASSOCIATED RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; STABLE INTRONIC SEQUENCE RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; VIROID; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTRONS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; VIROIDS;

EID: 84946423189     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1309     Document Type: Article

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