Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA

Nature - Tập 408 Số 6808 - Trang 86-89 - 2000
Amy E. Pasquinelli1, Brenda J. Reinhart2, Frank J. Slack3, Mark Q. Martindale4, Mitzi I. Kuroda5, Betsy Maller3, David C. Hayward6, Eldon E. Ball6, Bernard M. Degnan7, Peter Müller8, Jürg Spring8, Ashok Srinivasan9, Mark C. Fishman9, John R. Finnerty10, Joseph C. Corbo11, Michael Levine11, Patrick Leahy12, Eric A. Davidson12, Gary Ruvkun2
1Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA.
2Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
3Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, USA
4Kewalo Marine Lab, Pacific Biomedical Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
5Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
6Research School of Biological Sciences, PO Box 475, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
7Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia,
8Institute of Zoology, University of Basel, Basel, (Switzerland)
9Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, USA
10Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, USA
11Department of Molecular and Cell biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
12Division of Biology 156−29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

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