Article
Conservation and divergence of plant microRNA genes.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Apr 2006
Zhang Baohong, Pan Xiaoping, Cannon Charles H, Cobb George P, Anderson Todd A
Abstract excerpt
MicroRNA (miRNA) is one class of newly identified, small, non-coding RNAs that play versatile and important roles in post-transcriptional gene regulation. All miRNAs have similar secondary hairpin structures; many of these are evolutionarily conserved. This suggests a powerful approach to predict the existence of new miRNA orthologs or homologs in other species. We developed a comprehensive strategy to identify...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Conserved Sequence
- Expressed Sequence Tags
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- MicroRNAs
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Phylogeny
- Plants
- RNA, Plant