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SUBMITTER: Tarver JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4513859 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tarver James E JE Cormier Alexandre A Pinzón Natalia N Taylor Richard S RS Carré Wilfrid W Strittmatter Martina M Seitz Hervé H Coelho Susana M SM Cock J Mark JM
Nucleic acids research 20150622 13
There is currently convincing evidence that microRNAs have evolved independently in at least six different eukaryotic lineages: animals, land plants, chlorophyte green algae, demosponges, slime molds and brown algae. MicroRNAs from different lineages are not homologous but some structural features are strongly conserved across the eukaryotic tree allowing the application of stringent criteria to identify novel microRNA loci. A large set of 63 microRNA families was identified in the brown alga Ec ...[more]