Monday, July 7, 2008

[Paper] Evolution of plant miRNA

Author: Michael J. Axtell and John L. Bowman
Title: Evolution of plant microRNAs and their targets
Sources: Trends in Plant Science (2008) 13(7): 343-349. Journal link here
Note:
The authors review the current progress on plant microRNAs and the hypothesis on the evolution. There are 21 highly expressed microRNAs are known to angiosperms and there are several newly identified weakly expressed ones as well.

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