Pervasive microRNA Duplication in Chelicerates: Insights from the Embryonic microRNA Repertoire of the Spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum

@article{Leite2016PervasiveMD,
  title={Pervasive microRNA Duplication in Chelicerates: Insights from the Embryonic microRNA Repertoire of the Spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum},
  author={Daniel J. Leite and Maria Ninova and Maarten Hilbrant and Saad Arif and Sam Griffiths-Jones and Matthew Ronshaugen and Alistair P. McGregor},
  journal={Genome Biology and Evolution},
  year={2016},
  volume={8},
  pages={2133 - 2144}
}
Abstract MicroRNAs are small (∼22 nt) noncoding RNAs that repress translation and therefore regulate the production of proteins from specific target mRNAs. microRNAs have been found to function in diverse aspects of gene regulation within animal development and many other processes. Among invertebrates, both conserved and novel, lineage specific, microRNAs have been extensively studied predominantly in holometabolous insects such as Drosophila melanogaster . However little is known about… 
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