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The Drosophila microRNA iab-4 causes a dominant homeotic transformation of halteres to wings.
Genes & development - 15 Dec 2005
Ronshaugen Matthew, Biemar Frédéric, Piel Jessica, Levine Mike, Lai Eric C
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The Drosophila Bithorax Complex encodes three well-characterized homeodomain proteins that direct segment identity, as well as several noncoding RNAs of unknown function. Here, we analyze the iab-4 locus, which produces the microRNAs iab-4-5p and iab-4-3p. iab-4 is analogous to miR-196 in vertebrate Hox clusters. Previous studies demonstrate that miR-196 interacts with the Hoxb8 3' untranslated region. Evidence...
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