Evolutionary clues in lncRNAs

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Nitsche, Anne ^a,b   Stadler, Peter F ^a,c,d,e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

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

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84992608976     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1376     Document Type: Review

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