Conservation and divergence of microRNAs in <it>Populus</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNAs (sRNA) ~21 nucleotides in length that negatively control gene expression by cleaving or inhibiting the translation of target gene transcripts. miRNAs have been extensively analyzed in <it>Arabi...

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Main Authors: dePamphilis Claude W, DiLoreto Scott, Wall Phillip K, Barakat Abdelali, Carlson John E
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-12-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/481