Title |
A study of neural-related microRNAs in the developing amphioxus
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Published in |
EvoDevo, July 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/2041-9139-2-15 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Simona Candiani, Luca Moronti, Davide De Pietri Tonelli, Greta Garbarino, Mario Pestarino |
Abstract |
MicroRNAs are small noncoding RNAs regulating expression of protein coding genes at post-transcriptional level and controlling several biological processes. At present microRNAs have been identified in various metazoans and seem also to be involved in brain development, neuronal differentiation and subtypes specification. An approach to better understand the role of microRNAs in animal gene expression is to determine temporal and tissue-specific expression patterns of microRNAs in different model organisms. Therefore, we have investigated the expression of six neural related microRNAs in amphioxus, an organism having an important phylogenetic position in terms of understanding the origin and evolution of chordates. |
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