Conservation and diversification of small RNA pathways within flatworms

Abstract Background Small non-coding RNAs, including miRNAs, and gene silencing mediated by RNA interference have been described in free-living and parasitic lineages of flatworms, but only few key factors of the small RNA pathways have been exhaustively investigated in a limited number of species....

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Main Authors: Santiago Fontenla, Gabriel Rinaldi, Pablo Smircich, Jose F. Tort
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-017-1061-5